{"id":549319,"date":"2025-11-04T21:49:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/549319\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T21:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:49:13","slug":"prince-williams-university-friend-who-starred-in-big-brother-plunges-to-his-death-from-famous-london-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/549319\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William&#8217;s university friend who starred in Big Brother plunges to his death from famous London hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022Benjamin Duncan, 45, a university friend of Prince William and Princess Kate, has died after falling from the roof of London\u2019s Trafalgar St. James Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Police said the death was \u201cunexpected but non-suspicious.\u201d   <\/p>\n<p>\u2022Tributes have been paid to Mr Duncan, who studied with the royal couple at St Andrews University, and later became known for appearances on TV shows such as Big Brother, Come Dine With Me, and Celebrity Coach Trip. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2022Benjamin Duncan, 45, a university friend of Prince William and Princess Kate, has died after falling from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[21190,1456,748,393,4884,257,135,532,29067,16,15,44562],"class_list":{"0":"post-549319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-ben","9":"tag-big-brother","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-metropolitan-police","15":"tag-prince-william","16":"tag-trafalgar-square","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-university-of-st-andrews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115493638394520247","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549319","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=549319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}