Prince William apologises to university lecturer for making students late
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The Prince of Wales has recorded a video apology for students who were late to their university lecture during a royal visit.
The Prince, 42, appeared in a TikTok video by Samantha Johnson, an Ulster University student, who asked him to explain to “Lesley” on camera why she would be late for her lecture.
The heir to the throne said: “Lesley, I’m very sorry we’re late but they seem to be caught up and they wouldn’t believe that you were here so just to say hi.”
Ms Johnson then thanked the Prince for helping to prove to her lecturer that she had been held up by meeting the future King.
The viral video, which was filmed during the Prince’s one-day visit to Belfast on Thursday, marks his first direct appearance on the Chinese-owned app.
It has garnered more than 420k likes and more than 2.2m viewers since its publication yesterday.
Responding to comments from her followers, Ms Johnson wrote that the Prince was “one of the nicest people I’ve met,” adding that he “genuinely takes care in trying to get to know you”.
She added that the brief interaction with him has “fully changed” her perception of the Prince, saying he is “so so nice”.
The student also quipped that she “didn’t expect them to be so posh” and joked that she had been “royally pardoned” from her lecture at the Belfast City Campus Centre.
Responding to one commenter who said that “interactions with royals are getting more and more unserious”, she said that it “makes them seem more real”.
The King went viral on the social media app when he was filmed getting pulled into a group hug by the New Zealand women’s rugby team at Buckingham Palace in September.
The Prince’s appearance on camera came during an official royal engagement in Northern Ireland that had been originally due to take place in May, but was postponed because of the general election.
During the visit he posed on a stationary motorcycle, which with the help of special effects appeared to take him for a spin through the Arizona desert, as he tried out cutting-edge filming techniques and toured a video production training centre.
