Some fans argued that using her maiden name diminished the dignity of the moment, especially given the gravity of the ceremony.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Taking to X, formerly known as Twitter, One person wrote: “Who is the moron calling the Princess of Wales \u201cKate Middleton\u201d on BBC News?”<\/p>\n
Another said: “Am I missing something? Is the BBC now not just left wing but also republican? \u201cKate Middleton\u201d ?? ??? How bl**y disrespectful. This woman keeps on calling her Kate Middleton. FFS!”<\/p>\n
A third chimed in, “Can somebody have a word in the ear of your reporter at the National Memorial Arboretum – she should not be referring to the Princess of Wales as ‘Kate Middleton’!!”<\/p>\n
While a fourth shared, “How dare the #BBC once again be disrespectful to Kathryn Princes of Wales at the wreath laying (broadcasting now). Several times the woman presenter used her maiden name. I am fuming!!! I would name and shame if I knew who she is.”<\/p>\n
MORE FOLLOWS…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.express.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Princess Kate made a solemn appearance at the Armistice Day Service of Remembrance at the National Memorial Arboretum this morning – but the moment was overshadowed for many viewers when the BBC referred to her as \u201cKate Middleton\u201d during its live broadcast. The Princess of Wales, 43, stepped out in a commanding all-black ensemble, wearing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2148656,"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":[129422,37936,406414,22769],"class_list":["post-2148655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-princess-kate","tag-princess-of-wales","tag-remembrance-day","tag-royal-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Princess-Kate-fans-rage-as-BBC-make-major-blunder-live.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148655","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=2148655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2148657,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148655\/revisions\/2148657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2148655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2148655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2148655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}