- Friday, April 19, 2024
By: Pramod Thomas
THE Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had an unexpected chat on FaceTime with a paramedic’s father in Bangladesh.
Paramedic Jay Khan asked William and Kate if it was okay to call her father, Abu, in Banglasdesh when the couple visited Newham Ambulance Station in east London on Thursday (18).
Khan took out her phone and the royals found themselves having a chat with Abu 5,000 miles away, reported The Telegraph.
“You must be very proud of your daughter. She’s looking forward to seeing you soon,” the Duke told him. “Hopefully it won’t be too long before you can all meet up and see each other again,” the Duchess said.
Khan then called her sister Nasrin and granddad Baharam in the UK, putting them on to the Cambridges.
Eventually, Khan told them they should probably let the royal couple go, to which the Duke replied: “We can stay here and do some more family chatting if that works. Very nice to chat everyone, bye,” The Telegraph report added.
The visit came after US television presenter Gayle King revealed that the Duke of Sussex had spoken to both his brother and his father about the damaging claims made to Oprah Winfrey but that the conversations had not been “productive.”
The disclosure is said to have made Prince William wary about speaking to him again.
During the visit, the Cambridges stood in the station’s Wellbeing Garden before a large heart mural, complete with crown, bearing the words ‘healing hurt’.
According to the report, the couple heard more about the mental health and wellbeing support provided to staff at the station, including drop-in sessions and wellbeing spaces, alongside some of the wider initiatives provided by the London Ambulance Service including their fleet of Wellbeing Tea Trucks.
Covering the boroughs of Newham and Waltham Forest, Newham Station forms part of the second busiest station group in the London Ambulance Service having attended over 76,500 calls over the past year.
