{"id":49793,"date":"2025-04-25T16:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T16:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/49793\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T16:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T16:16:12","slug":"prince-harry-accuses-john-travolta-of-dining-out-on-princess-diana-story-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/49793\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry accuses John Travolta of ‘dining out’ on Princess Diana story | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Duke of Sussex will attend the 22nd Living Legends of Aviation awards ceremony tonight at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in California, alongside a number of A-listers and aviation heroes. At last year’s event in 2024, Prince Harry<\/a> was honoured as a Living Legend due to his experience flying as a pilot in the British Army<\/a> – and while on stage, he accused the host and actor, John Travolta, of “dining out” on the story of dancing with his late mum, Princess Diana of Wales<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During the event, Harry was inducted into the “Living Legends of Aviation” for his work as a British Army veteran and pilot. While taking the stage for his acceptance speech, he clapped the Hollywood<\/a> actor on the shoulder and said: “This is nice. Thanks very much, Captain John.”<\/p>\n

He said: “I was one year old when you danced with my mum. As you’ve told everybody here and continue to dine out on that probably every single night.”<\/p>\n

He added: “But look at us now! It’s great. So if we\u2019re not going to dance together, we’ll fly together.”<\/p>\n

After the audience started laughing, Harry appeared to jokingly hold his hand up to dismiss Travolta, as he said: “Thank you, that\u2019s it, we’re done.”<\/p>\n

Prince Harry<\/a> served for 10 years in the military, rising to the rank of Captain<\/a>, and later founded the Invictus Games – a sporting event for wounded military personnel and veterans.<\/p>\n

Last year, the event’s website also praised the duke for his work with charities and organisations including Travalyst, Sentebale, African Parks and WellChild. A statement on its website said: “Prince Harry<\/a> is a humanitarian, military veteran, mental wellness advocate and environmentalist. He has dedicated his life to advancing causes that he is passionate about and that bring about permanent change for people and places.”<\/p>\n

Tonight, Harry will once again join various A-listers, including Morgan Freeman and John Travolta. The latter, as ambassador of aviation, will host the awards. The ceremony will celebrate all aerial firefighters<\/a> who helped combat the devastating wildfires which spread havoc in California earlier this year.<\/p>\n

According to Flying magazine, honourees this year will include Christopher Cassidy, a former Navy SEAL and NASA astronaut who logged three spaceflights, 10 spacewalks, and a total of logging 377 days in space, Robert “Hoot” Gibson, a former astronaut, Navy fighter pilot, and air race pilot, and Tom Costello, NBC\u2019s lead aviation and space correspondent and an Emmy award-winning reporter.<\/p>\n

This year, the ceremony will hand the inaugural Dr. Buzz Aldrin Space Advancement Award to the Polaris Dawn Crew for their first “historic” mission.<\/p>\n

The ceremony will honour the mission’s commander, Jared Isaacman, pilot Scott “Kid” Poteet, specialist Sarah Gillis, and specialist and medical officer Anna Menon for performing “cutting-edge experiments, high-altitude orbital manoeuvres, and the first private spacewalk”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Duke of Sussex will attend the 22nd Living Legends of Aviation awards ceremony tonight at the Beverly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[26827,26828,26829,21437,26826,447,5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-49793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-aviation-awards-ceremony","9":"tag-beverly-hills","10":"tag-beverly-hills-hotel","11":"tag-john-travolta","12":"tag-living-legends-of-aviation","13":"tag-prince-harry","14":"tag-royal","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114399503092102005","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49793","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=49793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}