{"id":582371,"date":"2026-07-12T21:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/582371\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T21:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:34:11","slug":"prince-william-joins-wife-kate-in-star-studded-royal-box-for-wimbledon-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/582371\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William joins wife Kate in star-studded Royal Box for Wimbledon final"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON (AP) \u2014 Prince William joined his wife Kate and two of their children for the men\u2019s final at Wimbledon<\/a> on Sunday in a star-studded Royal Box that also included actors Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman and Ben Stiller. <\/p>\n

Kate is the patron of the All England Club and presented the trophy to winner Jannik Sinner after his match<\/a> against Alexander Zverev. She also handed out the trophy to women\u2019s winner Linda Noskova<\/a> on Saturday, but was not joined by any family members. <\/p>\n

The couple\u2019s two eldest children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, also attended Sunday\u2019s match. All four were on hand to watch Sinner beat Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> in last year\u2019s final as well. After the win over Zverev, the royals had an extended chat with Sinner in a room inside the tournament\u2019s main stadium as he clutched the golden trophy. <\/p>\n

\u201cFantastic achievement,\u201d Kate told Sinner. \u201cIt\u2019s really inspiring to the children to see tennis at that level.\u201d <\/p>\n

Sinner then asked the young royals how often they play tennis themselves. <\/p>\n

\u201cNot every day, but weekends,\u201d George said. <\/p>\n

Other dignitaries in the Royal Box included German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Italy\u2019s sports minister Andrea Abodi. <\/p>\n

Former Wimbledon champions Stefan Edberg, Lleyton Hewitt, Richard Krajicek, Jan Kodes and Stan Smith were also in attendance. <\/p>\n

Other Hollywood celebrities in the crowd for the match included Jennifer Lopez, Tom Hiddleston and Andrew Garfield. <\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 Prince William joined his wife Kate and two of their children for the men\u2019s final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[226168,247507,24639,28597,37262,434,103051,18,117,6622,3334,19,17,371,247509,220280,19726,247502,247506,130,10420,247504,247503,132,247505,247508,2526,23918,14181,97759,66],"class_list":["post-582371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-alexander-zverev","tag-andrea-abodi","tag-andrew-garfield","tag-ben-stiller","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-celebrities","tag-dustin-hoffman","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-friedrich-merz","tag-general-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-italy","tag-jan-kodes","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-jennifer-lopez","tag-linda-noskova","tag-lleyton-hewitt","tag-london","tag-nicole-kidman","tag-prince-george-of-wales","tag-richard-krajicek","tag-sports","tag-stan-smith","tag-stefan-edberg","tag-tennis","tag-tom-hiddleston","tag-wimbledon","tag-wimbledon-championships","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}