{"id":451053,"date":"2025-09-25T19:11:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T19:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/451053\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T19:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T19:11:18","slug":"prince-william-kate-middleton-urge-young-people-to-learn-swimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/451053\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William, Kate Middleton urge young people to learn swimming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                                \t                                        \t\t                                        \tPrince William, Kate Middleton show support to Tom Dean&#8217;s lifesaving initiative                                        \t                                        <\/p>\n<p>Prince William and Kate Middleton, the Prince and Princess of Wales have shown their support for Tom Dean&#8217;s latest initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to Instagram Stories of the official Instagram handle of the Prince and Princess of Wales, William and Kate shared a message praising Olympic champion Tom Dean\u2019s swim school.<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/625524_7409023_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Kensington Palace drop special message on behalf of the Prince and Princess of Wales\" width=\"439\" height=\"823\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kensington Palace drop special message on behalf of the Prince and Princess of Wales<\/p>\n<p>The message shared read, &#8220;Amazing work happening at @tomdeanswimschool to improve young people&#8217;s access to a potentially lifesaving skill, delivered with support from The Royal Foundation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The video shared a featured glimpse from the school with Tom saying, \u201cSwimming is the only sport that can save your life\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to add that his parents were very passionate about it and \u201csaid that it\u2019s a must from a young age.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tom revealed that while he didn\u2019t have much access to swimming while growing up, he realised that \u201cit\u2019s an issue that really needs some attention and that\u2019s what we\u2019re able to do now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to share his dream, saying, \u201cmy dream is to get every single child in the UK to be able to learn to swim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the support from Prince William and Kate Middleton through The Royal Foundation, Tom Dean is able to work on his dream.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince William, Kate Middleton show support to Tom Dean&#8217;s lifesaving initiative Prince William and Kate Middleton, the Prince&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,533,2832,532,2831,7710,519,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-451053","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-princess-of-wales","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-uk-royal-family","18":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115266525466094992","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451053","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=451053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}