{"id":398247,"date":"2025-09-04T21:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T21:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/398247\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T21:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T21:21:13","slug":"when-king-charles-was-pestered-over-phone-call-by-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/398247\/","title":{"rendered":"When King Charles was pestered over phone call by stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/621984_4506338_updates.jpg\" alt=\"When King Charles was pestered over phone call by stranger\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>When King Charles was pestered over phone call by stranger<\/p>\n<p>King Charles\u2019 private number was once mistaken for a takeaway shop, says an ex-Royal staffer.<\/p>\n<p>His Majesty\u2019s consistently received calls from an unknown number asked for a Chinese takeaway, quips former Royal butler Grant Harrold at the launch of his new book, \u2018The Royal Butler: My Remarkable Life of Royal Service.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember once somebody got hold of the King&#8217;s private phone and they phoned him up thinking he was a Chinese takeaway,&#8221; the 47-year-old revealed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They put in an order, trying to get a Chinese. He just said, &#8216;I&#8217;m not a Chinese takeaway, you&#8217;ve got the wrong number.&#8217; But they kept phoning him back,&#8221; Grant shared. &#8220;Eventually, he had to get us to speak to them and say, &#8216;This is the wrong number&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Grant then went  on to recall the time the King\u2019s younger son, Prince Harry, invited him for a takeaway meal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I declined, but I sat down with them while they had it, just informally,&#8221; he told Slingo. &#8220;It was really fun, and I thought, this is obviously how they&#8217;ve been brought up.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When King Charles was pestered over phone call by stranger King Charles\u2019 private number was once mistaken for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1760,7710,519],"class_list":{"0":"post-398247","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-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-royal-families","13":"tag-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115148127610085290","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398247","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=398247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}