{"id":196710,"date":"2025-06-19T08:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T08:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/196710\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T08:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T08:51:10","slug":"prince-william-sparks-fan-frenzy-as-he-is-pictured-sharing-sweet-moment-with-cousin-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/196710\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William sparks fan frenzy as he is pictured sharing sweet moment with cousin | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-william\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince William<\/a> sent <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Royal Family\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/royal-family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Family<\/a> fans into frenzy yesterday as he was seen sharing a sweet moment with one of his cousins at Royal Ascot. The Prince of Wales, who <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2070503\/prince-william-royal-ascot-appearance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attended the event without his wife Princess Kate<\/a> after <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2070330\/kensington-palace-princess-kate-royal-ascot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she pulled out last minute<\/a>, seemed pleased to see his royal relatives at the event.<\/p>\n<p>After being part of the royal carriage procession with <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"King Charles III\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/king-charles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">King Charles<\/a> and <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Queen Camilla\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/queen-camilla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queen Camilla<\/a>, William, 42, took to the royal box where he was seen sweetly greeting his cousin <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Zara Tindall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/zara-tindall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zara Tindall<\/a>. The prince seemed delighted to see her, giving her a kiss on the cheek before putting a loving hand on her shoulder. The sweet interaction has sent royal fans into a frenzy, with many commenting on just how sweet their bond is.<\/p>\n<p>One fan wrote on X: &#8220;They always look happy to see each other and Zara brings so much fun to any occasion and she always has William\u2019s back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A second said: &#8220;The fun, loving and caring big sister he never had.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another fan wrote: &#8220;I love their relationship. More like brother-sister. He really needs his down-to-earth cousins more and more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Someone else said: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-william\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince William<\/a> and Zara Tindall are forever my favorite cousins combo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Princess Kate may not have accompanied her husband to the event, William had plenty of relatives and friends around him, <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2070378\/Carole-Middleton-Royal-Ascot-princess-kate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">including Kate\u2019s mum Carole Middleton.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The future King was also pictured at the event on Wednesday with his good friend Thomas van Staubenzee, the godfather of his daughter Princess Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that Princess Kate was disappointed not to be at the event, but was not present as a result of getting the balance of royal engagements right following the news in January that her <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2000424\/princess-kate-cancer-update-latest-message\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cancer is now in remission.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince William sent Royal Family fans into frenzy yesterday as he was seen sharing a sweet moment with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,533,2832,532,79847,70913,79846,27851,55556,2831,7710,519,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-196710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-kate-middleton","12":"tag-prince-of-wales","13":"tag-prince-william","14":"tag-prince-william-carriage","15":"tag-prince-william-princess-kate","16":"tag-prince-william-royal-ascot","17":"tag-prince-william-royal-family","18":"tag-prince-william-zara-tindall","19":"tag-princess-of-wales","20":"tag-royal-families","21":"tag-royal-family","22":"tag-uk-royal-family","23":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114709180169065125","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}