{"id":425896,"date":"2025-09-15T09:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/425896\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T09:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:13:13","slug":"prince-william-makes-surprising-revelation-about-queen-elizabeth-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/425896\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William makes surprising revelation about Queen Elizabeth | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince William<\/a> made a surprising revelation about his late grandmother, Queen Elizabeth<\/a>, during one of his engagements this week<\/a>. On Monday, September 8, the third anniversary of the late monarch’s death, the Prince and Princess of Wales headed<\/a> to Sunningdale and visited the National Federation of Women’s Institutes.<\/p>\n

The visit took place in tribute to the late Queen’s decades-long association with the organisation. While there, the royals chatted with members of the Institute and shared stories about the late monarch.<\/p>\n

William told some of the guests: “It’s three years since my grandmother died, she was a big part of the WI, she used to talk about it a lot. This is the first time I’ve been, and experienced the WI, so this is a huge honour for me.”<\/p>\n

He asked for members’ memories of the late Queen and later told them “can’t believe it’s three years – goes quite quick”, and they chatted about his grandmother’s passion for horses and horse breeding.<\/p>\n

He then revealed that Elizabeth had “an old iPad” she would use to watch her foals being born via a remote camera, adding “a lot of foals were born at Sandringham”.<\/p>\n

The event was hosted by the Sunningdale branch of the WI in their small Berkshire hall with an array of cakes on a side table, which William and Kate, who had not been expected to attend, could not resist.<\/p>\n

The WI has a close connection with Elizabeth II as she was a member for 80 years, joining in 1943 and serving as president of the Sandringham WI from 2003 until her death in 2022 at Balmoral, aged 96, after a reign lasting 70 years.<\/p>\n

The late Queen was an active member of the Sandringham WI and would regularly attend the New Year meeting in January.<\/p>\n

During the reception, Kate and William joined members at a series of tables and the princess told the first group: “The making and creating of the WI is at the heart of your organisation.”<\/p>\n

And when she later described how she carries out activities with her children at home, William said with glee: “There was a bit of sloe gin-making I was involved with.”<\/p>\n

The prince teased some of the group, asking: “Can you have honorary male members of the WI?” When they answered: “No” in chorus, he smiled and said: “Point taken.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince William made a surprising revelation about his late grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, during one of his engagements this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,533,2832,532,145435,145437,10851,10852,8691,145436,10853,2831,145438,8821,7710,519,10858,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-425896","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-comment","15":"tag-prince-william-ipad","16":"tag-prince-william-latest","17":"tag-prince-william-latest-news","18":"tag-prince-william-news","19":"tag-prince-william-queen-elizabeth","20":"tag-prince-william-update","21":"tag-princess-of-wales","22":"tag-queen-elizabeth-ipad","23":"tag-queen-elizabeth","24":"tag-royal-families","25":"tag-royal-family","26":"tag-royal-news","27":"tag-uk-royal-family","28":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115207549974456232","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425896","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=425896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}