{"id":947952,"date":"2026-05-09T08:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/947952\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T08:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:55:16","slug":"southport-survivor-said-meeting-prince-william-was-magical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/947952\/","title":{"rendered":"Southport survivor said meeting Prince William was &#8216;magical&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Prince and Princess of Wales hosted the garden party on behalf of the King, and met guests from a number of both their patronages, military affiliations and passion projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zara Tindall and the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh also attended the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After her meeting with William, Lucas said: &#8220;It was like meeting an old friend again, because we had such personal conversations last time we met.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the Prince was &#8220;really keen&#8221; to know about her campaign but was also &#8220;checking in on how I am&#8221; and &#8220;it was a nice conversation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;Today is just magical, it&#8217;s a once in a lifetime experience, so I&#8217;m really honoured to even be invited let alone get to see them again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Of her conversation with Kate, who was wearing a Self Portrait dress and a vintage hat, she said: &#8220;Last time I met her I was quite down. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We met them while the inquiry was going on, so she just said she is so happy to see me full of energy and passion and enthusiasm again.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Prince and Princess of Wales hosted the garden party on behalf of the King, and met guests&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-947952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116543784689279282","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947952","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=947952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}