{"id":2304397,"date":"2026-02-28T02:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2304397"},"modified":"2026-02-28T02:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:50:09","slug":"kate-middleton-turns-down-autograph-over-royal-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kate-middleton-turns-down-autograph-over-royal-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Middleton Turns Down Autograph Over Royal Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kate_middleton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Kate Middleton<\/strong><\/a> deserves a crown for her diplomacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Princess of Wales seamlessly denied a fan&#8217;s request for an autograph to avoid breaking royal protocol during a Feb. 26 trip to Powys, Wales, with her husband <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/prince_william\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Prince William<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a video published by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DVPID1WktIC\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\"><em>Hello!<\/em><\/a> Feb. 27, Kate greeted a group of people outside to celebrate community spirit ahead of St. David\u2019s Day. But when one fan approached her with a pen and asked for an autograph, she politely redirected his request.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t sign things, I\u2019m so sorry,\u201d she told him in the clip, adding, \u201cI can shake your hand, though.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man happily accepted her offer, and in a sweet turn of events, their handshake turned into a brief hug before Kate continued on to greet the others waiting in line.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And the 44-year-old was being entirely truthful about her inability to sign an autograph. Indeed, members of the royal family are forbidden from publicly giving out their signatures due to forgery risks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\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>Kate Middleton deserves a crown for her diplomacy.\u00a0 The Princess of Wales seamlessly denied a fan&#8217;s request for an autograph to avoid breaking royal protocol during a Feb. 26 trip to Powys, Wales, with her husband Prince William.\u00a0 In a video published by Hello! Feb. 27, Kate greeted a group of people outside to celebrate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2304398,"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-2304397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Kate-Middleton-Turns-Down-Autograph-Over-Royal-Rules.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304397","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=2304397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304399,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304397\/revisions\/2304399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2304398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2304397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2304397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2304397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}