{"id":726811,"date":"2026-08-04T03:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T03:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/726811\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T03:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T03:36:12","slug":"west-end-star-opens-up-on-impossible-relationship-with-royal-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/726811\/","title":{"rendered":"West End star opens up on \u2018impossible\u2019 relationship with royal | Lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/ruthie-henshall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ruthie Henshall<\/a> has opened up on her romance with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/prince-edward\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prince Edward<\/a>, revealing that it was \u201cnever going to work\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The West End icon had an on-off five-year relationship with the royal, after first meeting in 1988 when she was starring in Andrew Lloyd Webber\u2019s Cats.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on Sunday Brunch on Sunday (2 August), the 59-year-old discussed her new memoir, The Showgirl and the Prince, which details the pair\u2019s romance.<\/p>\n<p>Host Tim Lovejoy described it as \u201cthe impossible relationship\u201d. He explained: \u201cHe\u2019s a prince and you\u2019ve got a great career, it could never really work, could it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. It was never going to work,\u201d she agreed, as she spoke about the complexities that come with being involved with the royal family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ruthie Henshall has opened up on her romance with Prince Edward, revealing that it was \u201cnever going to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[428,6491,183800,36669,6494,96,185829,11237,190168,183803,7613,6500,2207,6487,142652,1671,217,183798,32821,1288,237097,240201,187958,192299,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-726811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-club-soccer","tag-coach","tag-color-image","tag-entertainment","tag-facial-expression","tag-horizontal","tag-incidental-people","tag-match-sport","tag-new-south-wales","tag-one-person","tag-people","tag-photography","tag-roberto-de-zerbi","tag-soccer","tag-sport","tag-stadium","tag-super-cup","tag-sydney","tag-sydney-fc","tag-sydney-football-stadium","tag-three-quarter-length","tag-tottenham-hotspur-f-c","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}