{"id":2509947,"date":"2026-07-20T19:50:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2509947"},"modified":"2026-07-20T19:50:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:50:39","slug":"prince-william-sends-out-emotional-message-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/prince-william-sends-out-emotional-message-royal-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William sends out emotional message | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>William, who is patron of the Football Association, said in his message: \u201cIncredibly saddened to hear of the passing of Kevin Keegan. A truly remarkable footballer and manager who inspired generations with his talent, passion and love of the game. Above all, he will be remembered as a kind and generous man. Our thoughts are with his family and all who knew him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He signed it with his initial, \u201cW\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Keegan, a star of Liverpool\u2019s 1970s side who went on to become adored on Tyneside as player and manager of Newcastle, had been undergoing treatment for stage four cancer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A statement from Keegan\u2019s family read: \u201cIt is with immense sadness that we announce that Kevin Keegan has passed away at the age of 75.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cKevin had been battling cancer and was surrounded by his wife and daughters in his final moments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cA double Ballon d\u2019Or winner, Kevin was a much-loved husband, father and grandfather.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe family would like to thank Kevin\u2019s incredible medical team for all their support.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThis is a hugely difficult time and they are requesting space and privacy.\u201d<\/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.express.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William, who is patron of the Football Association, said in his message: \u201cIncredibly saddened to hear of the passing of Kevin Keegan. A truly remarkable footballer and manager who inspired generations with his talent, passion and love of the game. Above all, he will be remembered as a kind and generous man. Our thoughts are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2509949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[494854,22928,23068,494853,351512,380983,450310,74832,46636],"class_list":["post-2509947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-kevin-keegan","tag-prince-of-wales","tag-prince-william","tag-prince-william-kevin-keegan","tag-prince-william-latest","tag-prince-william-latest-news","tag-prince-william-message","tag-prince-william-news","tag-william-and-kate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Prince-William-sends-out-emotional-message-Royal-News.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509947","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=2509947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2509951,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509947\/revisions\/2509951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2509949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2509947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2509947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2509947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}