{"id":2168817,"date":"2025-11-20T17:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2168817"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:44:12","slug":"paddington-bear-meets-prince-william-kate-middleton-variety-backstage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/paddington-bear-meets-prince-william-kate-middleton-variety-backstage\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddington Bear Meets Prince William, Kate Middleton Variety Backstage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tPaddington Bear<\/a> was given a right royal welcome backstage at last night\u2019s Royal Variety performance.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe beloved bear, who is currently on the West End stage, was pictured with Prince William<\/a> and his wife the Princess of Wales after the show. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cA rather wonderful encounter at the Royal Variety Performance,\u201d tweeted StudioCanal, which is behind the stage show.<\/p>\n

\n\tBBC News reported that Prince William said Paddington\u2019s performance was \u201cfantastic,\u201d before adding: \u201cYour sandwich looks very nice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPaddington has a close connection with the Royal Family. He famously appeared in a sketch with the late Queen Elizabeth II for her Platinum Jubilee in 2022.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe marmalade-loving bear has been lighting up preview performances in London\u2019s West End in Paddigton: The Musical. <\/em>The bear recently went viral after his encounter with a BBC News journalist caused the journalist <\/a>to \u201chave a little moment here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLast night\u2019s Royal Variety Performance in the UK was on ITV and featured performances from Jessie J and Stephen Fry.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source deadline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paddington Bear was given a right royal welcome backstage at last night\u2019s Royal Variety performance. The beloved bear, who is currently on the West End stage, was pictured with Prince William and his wife the Princess of Wales after the show. \u201cA rather wonderful encounter at the Royal Variety Performance,\u201d tweeted StudioCanal, which is behind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2168818,"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":[23651,391085,23068],"class_list":["post-2168817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-kate-middleton","tag-paddington-bear","tag-prince-william"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Paddington-Bear-Meets-Prince-William-Kate-Middleton-Variety-Backstage.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168817","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=2168817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2168819,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168817\/revisions\/2168819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2168818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2168817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2168817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2168817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}