{"id":401986,"date":"2025-09-06T06:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/401986\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T06:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:46:09","slug":"prince-harry-made-princess-kate-cry-with-nickname-for-her-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/401986\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry ‘made Princess Kate cry’ with nickname for her | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince Harry<\/a> “made Princess Kate<\/a> cry” with adorable nickname for her in his speech at the Prince and Princess of Wales’s wedding<\/a>. Standing next to his brother at his 2011 nuptials<\/a> – Harry showcased how close the brothers really were in his speech.<\/p>\n

In his 2021 book titled Brothers and Wives, royal author Christopher Andersen shared what Harry said – and how well it went down with the wedding guests. Mr Andersen wrote: “In his best man’s toast, Harry apologised to Kate “for having to marry a bald man.” delivered spot-on impressions of William, “cooing down the line at Babykins” and Kate calling his brother “Billy” and referred to them repeatedly as “the dude and the duchess”.” He then continued: “There were muffled sobs when Harry told his brother, “Our mother would be so very proud of you,” and sighs when he said he loved Kate like a sister.”<\/p>\n

Moving his sister-in-law to tears, Mr Andersen then added: “At one point, the bride wiped away tears when her newly minted brother-in-law traded smiles with Chelsy and admitted that Kate and William’s decade long romance was his “inspiration”.”<\/p>\n

Speaking of the end of the day, he added: “Harry put his arms around around William and Kate and began to weep.<\/p>\n

“Soon the best man and the bride were helping brush away each other’s tears while a bemused and thoroughly dry-eyed William looked on.”<\/p>\n

He then added: ‘”People don’t realise how much Harry and Kate love and help each other,” an other guest said of the moment. “It’s key to this whole thing”.”<\/p>\n

Previously speaking back in 2021 on the Royally US podcast, Mr Anderson said: “Harry was always close to Kate and he always said she was the sister he never had.”<\/p>\n

He also got “very emotional” at William and Kate’s wedding, with the expert previously saying: “He described her as his sister and she got emotional too!<\/p>\n

“They always had this banter, they had similar senses of humour.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry “made Princess Kate cry” with adorable nickname for her in his speech at the Prince and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7721,7719,7718,7720,1281,447,63591,8606,2831,7710,519,7711],"class_list":{"0":"post-401986","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-duchess-of-sussex","10":"tag-duke-of-sussex","11":"tag-harry","12":"tag-meghan","13":"tag-meghan-markle","14":"tag-prince-harry","15":"tag-prince-harry-kate","16":"tag-princess-kate","17":"tag-princess-of-wales","18":"tag-royal-families","19":"tag-royal-family","20":"tag-uk-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115156011236434699","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401986","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=401986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}