{"id":2096223,"date":"2025-10-16T21:14:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2096223"},"modified":"2025-10-16T21:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:14:16","slug":"prince-william-kate-middleton-decline-prince-louis-conker-patronage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/prince-william-kate-middleton-decline-prince-louis-conker-patronage\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William, Kate Middleton Decline Prince Louis Conker Patronage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p>Some might say this royal news is a little nuts.<\/p>\n<p>After learning <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/prince_louis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">Prince Louis<\/a><\/strong>, 7, was a fan of stashing conkers\u2014or horse chestnuts\u2014all over his family\u2019s home, officials from World Conker Championships officials recently offered <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/prince_william\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">Prince William<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kate_middleton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">Kate Middleton<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s youngest a role as the competition&#8217;s honorary patron. Ultimately, though, Louis won&#8217;t be taking his of conkers into an official capacity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We really appreciate the invite,&#8221; a Kensington Palace spokesperson said in a statement to <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/royal-family\/2025\/10\/15\/prince-louis-conkers-patronage-declined\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">The Telegraph<\/a> <\/em>Oct. 15, &#8220;but currently Prince Louis is &#8216;conker-trating&#8217; on his studies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kate\u2014who also shares kids <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/prince_george\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Prince George<\/strong><\/a>, 12, and <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/princess_charlotte\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">Princess Charlotte<\/a><\/strong>, 10, with William\u2014had revealed Louis&#8217; passion for conkers during a conversation last month with Chief Scout of the Scout Association <strong>Dwayne Fields<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We keep finding conkers in cupboards, in his bed,&#8221; the 43-year old, co-president of the Scout Association said to him Sept. 18, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/184399\/kate-middleton-son-prince-louis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">PA Media<\/a> reported, &#8220;conkers everywhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some might say this royal news is a little nuts. After learning Prince Louis, 7, was a fan of stashing conkers\u2014or horse chestnuts\u2014all over his family\u2019s home, officials from World Conker Championships officials recently offered Prince William and Kate Middleton&#8216;s youngest a role as the competition&#8217;s honorary patron. Ultimately, though, Louis won&#8217;t be taking his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2096224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2096223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Prince-William-Kate-Middleton-Decline-Prince-Louis-Conker-Patronage.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2096223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2096225,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096223\/revisions\/2096225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2096224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2096223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2096223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2096223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}