{"id":2426895,"date":"2026-05-21T19:13:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2426895"},"modified":"2026-05-21T19:13:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:13:49","slug":"the-inner-circle-prince-william-keeps-out-of-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-inner-circle-prince-william-keeps-out-of-the-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"The inner circle Prince William keeps out of the spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-test=\"article-body-text\">\n<p>No royal has a \u201cbest friend\u201d, publicly speaking: \u201cThey tend to hold friendships fairly equally,\u201d says Arbiter. But Thomas van Straubenzee, seen at the match in Istanbul looking every bit as cheerful as William, might be thought of as the closest it gets. He and William met at Ludgrove preparatory school in Berkshire, in the 1980s. In his autobiography <em>Spare<\/em>, Prince Harry, who was \u2013 formally speaking \u2013 William\u2019s best man at his marriage to Catherine Middleton, described him as one of the two actually filling that role. Along with James Meade, van Straubenzee gave the best man\u2019s speech at their wedding reception, the younger royal claims.<\/p>\n<p>The van Straubenzees are, more generally, a sort of second family to both princes. Thomas van Straubenzee and his brother Charlie were ushers at Prince Harry\u2019s wedding to Meghan in 2018, and Harry was Charlie\u2019s best man at his wedding to Daisy Jenks the same year. These familial relationships are typical of royal social life, Arbiter explains, in the same way that Queen Elizabeth maintained friendships largely \u201cwith her cousins, and friends of cousins\u201d. The best way to ensure privacy, it seems, is to befriend those whose own parents have already won the royal seal of trust.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"u-heading-size-medium u-heading-style-normal\">James Meade<\/h2>\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.telegraph.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No royal has a \u201cbest friend\u201d, publicly speaking: \u201cThey tend to hold friendships fairly equally,\u201d says Arbiter. But Thomas van Straubenzee, seen at the match in Istanbul looking every bit as cheerful as William, might be thought of as the closest it gets. He and William met at Ludgrove preparatory school in Berkshire, in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2426896,"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":[387180,21738,387181,23068,22769,344742,24515,356051,382398],"class_list":["post-2426895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-daily-features","tag-news","tag-other-features","tag-prince-william","tag-royal-family","tag-standard","tag-the-royal-family","tag-uk-news","tag-us-content"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-inner-circle-Prince-William-keeps-out-of-the-spotlight.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426895","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=2426895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426897,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426895\/revisions\/2426897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2426896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2426895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2426895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2426895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}