{"id":26504,"date":"2019-07-04T14:49:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T20:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1054457"},"modified":"2019-07-04T14:49:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T20:49:46","slug":"prince-william-dishes-out-hugs-during-visit-to-london-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/prince-william-dishes-out-hugs-during-visit-to-london-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William Dishes Out Hugs During Visit to London Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201964\/rs_600x600-190704131519-600-Prince-William-Royal-Marsden-Hospital-070419.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.412680756396\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"24.360400444939\">\n<p>Royal hugs all around!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/prince_william\">Prince William<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;showed his&nbsp;tender side as he toured the Royal Marsden Hospital in London on Thursday. The Duke of Cambridge, who is president of the cancer treatment facility&#8217;s&nbsp;NHS Foundation Trust, met with patients, former patients and staff and&nbsp;granted requests for hugs during his visit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had a hug from William\u2014he&#8217;s my prince,&#8221; custodial worker <strong>Evelyn Adams<\/strong> said, according to reports. &#8220;This is my best working day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A video of&nbsp;William hugging hospital workers was posted on Kensington Palace&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BzgdRanlrLq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you Joyce and Evelyn @RoyalMarsden for sneaking upstairs for a hug with The Duke of Cambridge!&#8221; read the caption.<\/p>\n<p>During his visit, William&nbsp;met a small group of women&nbsp;in the Ellis Ward, which specializes in the care of female patients undergoing investigations and treatments for breast, gynecological, urological and gastrointestinal cancers.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"2\">\n<p>William has served as the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust&#8217;s president since 2007.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"4\">\n<p>He follows in the footsteps of his late mother Princess Diana,&nbsp;who held the position from 1989 until her death in 1997.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9\">\n<p>On Monday, on what would have been the Princess of Wales&#8217; 58th birthday,&nbsp;a small group of fans held vigil outside Kensington Palace to honor her memory.&nbsp;In a surprise move, William, backed by security, stepped outside unannounced to greet and thank them.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1054457\/prince-william-dishes-out-hugs-during-visit-to-london-hospital?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal hugs all around! Prince William&nbsp;showed his&nbsp;tender side as he toured the Royal Marsden Hospital in London on Thursday. The Duke of Cambridge, who is president of the cancer treatment facility&#8217;s&nbsp;NHS Foundation Trust, met with patients, former patients and staff and&nbsp;granted requests for hugs during his visit. &#8220;I had a hug from William\u2014he&#8217;s my prince,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-11 05:59:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}