Prince William<\/a> has been left “shocked and saddened” by the death of his former nanny’s stepson.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Prince William is saddened by Edward Pettifer’s death<\/p>\n
The Prince of Wales – who has three children with wife Catherine, Princess of Wales – has sent “thoughts and prayers” to the families of the 14 killed during a terror attack in New Orleans in the early hours of New Year’s Day (01.01.25), including the loved ones of Edward Pettifer, the 31-year-old stepson of his former carer Tiggy Legge-Bourke.<\/p>\n
William – who is godfather to Tiggy’s son Tom – wrote on social media: \u201cCatherine and I have been shocked and saddened by the tragic death of Ed Pettifer.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur thoughts and prayers remain with the Pettifer family and all those innocent people who have been tragically impacted by this horrific attack. W.”<\/p>\n
Buckingham Palace have confirmed William’s father, King Charles, was told about Edward’s death through official channels and was “deeply saddened” by the news.<\/p>\n
\nThe Daily Telegraph newspaper reports it is understood he has been in touch with his family to share personal condolences.<\/p>\n
\nEdward was the son of Charles Pettier and his first wife Camilla Wyatt. The former Coldstream Guards officer went on to marry his old friend Tiggy – who was nanny to William and his younger brother Priince Harry from 1993 until 1999 – and they had sons Fred, now 23, and Tom, 22 together.<\/p>\n
\nHis family said in a statement: \u201cThe entire family are devastated at the tragic news of Ed\u2019s death in New Orleans. He was a wonderful son, brother, grandson, nephew and a friend to so many.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWe will all miss him terribly. Our thoughts are with the other families who have lost their family members due to this terrible attack.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWe request that we can grieve the loss of Ed as a family in private. Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nTiggy has maintained a close relationship with both William and Harry – who is godfather to Fred – over the years – and now runs a bed and breakfast.<\/p>\n
\nThe New Orleans tragedy saw 14 people lose their lives when Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar drove a pick-up truck into a crowd in the city’s French quarter. He was later killed in a shoot-out with police.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\n
\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n
Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"5 January 2025 Prince William has been left “shocked and saddened” by the death of his former nanny’s stepson. Prince William is saddened by Edward Pettifer’s death The Prince of Wales – who has three children with wife Catherine, Princess of Wales – has sent “thoughts and prayers” to the families of the 14 killed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3294,10311,307,246,10312],"class_list":{"0":"post-142073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-catherine-princess-of-wales","9":"tag-edward-pettifer","10":"tag-prince-of-wales","11":"tag-prince-william","12":"tag-tiggy-legge-bourke"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}