{"id":87359,"date":"2025-05-09T12:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T12:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/87359\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T12:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T12:37:10","slug":"darts-star-james-wade-invited-to-buckingham-palace-by-king-charles-for-heroic-work-outside-of-the-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/87359\/","title":{"rendered":"Darts star James Wade invited to Buckingham Palace by King Charles for heroic work outside of the sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

JAMES Wade mixed with royalty on Wednesday after being invited to a Buckingham Palace garden party by the King. <\/p>\n

He earned the honour through his contribution to the community after extensive charity work supporting Bipolar UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Wade, seen above with wife Sammi, was recognised for his charity work by King Charles this weekCredit: James Wade on X\"King<\/a><\/p>\n

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King Charles III at a garden party for recognising outstanding community workCredit: JAMES WADE ON X<\/p>\n

Wade<\/a> has been an ambassador for the charity since 2016, spreading awareness of bipolar disorder alongside his decorated career<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He took up the invitation with his wife Sammi to meet King Charles<\/a> in an event dedicated to others who offer outstanding service to their communities.<\/p>\n

Wade, 41, said on X<\/a> after the party: “Apart from Samantha [and his children] this has got to be up there with the most special and memorable moment of my life.<\/p>\n

“A day to remember. God save the King.”<\/p>\n

The darts player was diagnosed with bipolar himself in 2012.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Sky <\/a>he explained why it mattered.<\/p>\n

He said: “I now understand better why I have outbursts and sometimes say things I shouldn’t.<\/p>\n

“I am a little calmer and definitely not as hot-headed as I used to be.”<\/p>\n

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Wade is currently ranked as world number 10 and thought of as one the best left-handers to grace the sport<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Englishman is one of the greatest to have never won a world championship<\/a>, having reached four semi-finals, but achieved a career high ranking of number two in 2010.<\/p>\n

He will host a celebrity fundraising day for Bipolar UK on Friday August 22 in Hampshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JAMES Wade mixed with royalty on Wednesday after being invited to a Buckingham Palace garden party by the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,2633,12450,7730,7731,7408,1760,210,7710,519,21101],"class_list":{"0":"post-87359","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-buckingham-palace","10":"tag-charity","11":"tag-charles","12":"tag-charles-iii","13":"tag-darts","14":"tag-king-charles","15":"tag-mental-health-and-illness","16":"tag-royal-families","17":"tag-royal-family","18":"tag-section-sportdarts"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114477914252181917","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87359","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=87359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}