{"id":158375,"date":"2026-03-09T20:34:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/158375\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:34:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:34:58","slug":"elisabeth-hasselbeck-on-awkward-hug-with-queen-elizabeth-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/158375\/","title":{"rendered":"Elisabeth Hasselbeck on &#8220;Awkward&#8221; Hug With Queen Elizabeth II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Elisabeth\u2019s experience mingling with the Queen\u2014who died in September 2022 at age 96\u2014wasn\u2019t exactly smooth, she\u2019s not the first person to make a blunder when meeting the British royals. In fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kate_middleton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Middleton<\/a> avoided breaking royal protocol during a recent public engagement in Powys, Wales, when an attendee approached her with a pen and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1429119\/kate-middleton-turns-down-autograph-over-royal-rules\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">asked for her autograph<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t sign things, I\u2019m so sorry,\u201d Kate, 44, said in a video published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DVPID1WktIC\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hello!<\/a> Feb. 27. \u201cI can shake your hand, though.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, members of the royal family are forbidden from giving their signature to prevent forgery, a rule the Princess of Wales is all too familiar with. After all, she found herself in a similar scenario in 2022, when she opted not to sign drawings she made with a group of schoolchildren at an event in London.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy name\u2019s Catherine,\u201d she told the kids at the time, per\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/royals\/kate-middleton-politely-declines-sign-autograph-royal-rules\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m not allowed to write my signature\u2014it\u2019s just one of those rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Elisabeth\u2019s experience mingling with the Queen\u2014who died in September 2022 at age 96\u2014wasn\u2019t exactly smooth, she\u2019s not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-158375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}