{"id":246803,"date":"2025-07-08T02:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T02:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/246803\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T02:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T02:07:12","slug":"prince-william-and-kate-middleton-in-7-7-tribute-error-as-social-media-post-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/246803\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William and Kate Middleton in 7\/7 tribute error as social media post removed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prince William and Kate Middleton have deleted a tribute to the victims of the 7\/7 terror attacks after an awkward social media blunder. The message was shared on Monday<a class=\"AuthorLink_author-link__rg5qj\" data-tmdatatrack=\"author\" data-testid=\"byline-author\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/authors\/adam-cailler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Adam Cailler<\/strong><\/a> Senior reporter and Reddit team lead, <strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35 __className_0eb4e9\">Paul Withers<\/strong> and <strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35 __className_0eb4e9\">Lauren Welch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>21:04, 07 Jul 2025Updated 21:04, 07 Jul 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1_The-Prince-And-Princess-of-Wales-Visit-Southport.jpg\" alt=\"Princess Kate and Prince William made a huge error\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Princess Kate and Prince William made a huge error(Image: Getty)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/kate-middletons-five-word-comment-35507764\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"The Duke and Duchess of CambridgeLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge<\/a> have been left red-faced after a social media blunder forced them to delete a tribute to the victims of the 7\/7 terror attacks. The message, posted on the @KensingtonRoyal account, began with the words &#8220;And copy&#8221; before paying tribute to those <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/breaking-kate-middleton-update-shes-35487880\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"who lost their lives in the attack 20 years ago.Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">who lost their lives in the attack 20 years ago.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The post read: &#8220;Remembering the victims of the 7\/7 attacks on this 20 year anniversary by joining survivors and bereaved families at the Memorial Gardens in Hyde Park this afternoon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">However, shortly after, the post was deleted and reposted without the embarrassing &#8220;And copy&#8221; prefix.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_Kensington-Palace-deleted-tweet.jpg\" alt=\"Kensington Palace deleted tweet\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>The post on X was swiftly deleted(Image: @KensingtonRoyal \/ X)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Prince William attended a poignant service at the memorial gardens in Hyde Park to mark the 20th anniversary of the tragedy, which killed 52 people and injured over 770 others. The 43 year old Royal was one of the last of the 500 guests to take his seat, dressed in a sombre dark navy suit and tie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Gerald Oppenheim, chairman of the London Bombing Relief Charitable Fund, acknowledged the royal&#8217;s attendance, saying: &#8220;We appreciate all you and members of the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/latest\/royal-family\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Family<\/a> do for survivors of the 7\/7 attacks.&#8221;, reports <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2078767\/prince-william-princess-kate-delete-77-tribute-post\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">the Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He also expressed his gratitude to the King for his impactful statement released earlier on Monday, as well as to the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh for their presence at the service at St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral where a minute&#8217;s silence was observed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Following the service, William was seen placing a bouquet of vibrant orange flowers on the plaque.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">After the hour-long service, the Prince mingled with survivors and the families of the victims at a private reception in a tea tent situated approximately 100 yards from the memorial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"newslettersLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">newsletters<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince William and Kate Middleton have deleted a tribute to the victims of the 7\/7 terror attacks after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,533,257,2832,532,2831,7710,519,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-246803","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-london","13":"tag-prince-of-wales","14":"tag-prince-william","15":"tag-princess-of-wales","16":"tag-royal-families","17":"tag-royal-family","18":"tag-uk-royal-family","19":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114815175603363405","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246803","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=246803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}