--- title: Serena William: Kate Middleton on Snapchat at Wimbledon description: Kate Middleton made her royal Snapchat debut on Serena Williams' snapchat during Wimbledon. canonical: https://time.com/4396653/serena-williams-kate-middleton-snapchat-wimbledon/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-07T16:18:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:06:12.925Z og:title: Kate Middleton Just Made an Appearance on Serena Williams’ Snapchat og:description: No filter needed for HRH og:url: https://time.com/4396653/serena-williams-kate-middleton-snapchat-wimbledon/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kate Middleton Just Made an Appearance on Serena Williams’ Snapchat twitter:description: No filter needed for HRH twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Kate Middleton Just Made an Appearance on Serena Williams’ Snapchat  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jul 7, 2016 4:18 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jul 7, 2016 4:18 PM UTC It’s a new, tech-friendly era for the British royal family; first, Queen Elizabeth II[ took to Twitter](http://time.com/4377294/queen-elizabeth-twitter-thank-you/) to personally send a very gracious tweet to her subjects and now [Kate Middleton](http://time.com/4395452/kate-middleton-floating-levitating-photo/) is in on [every cool teen’s favorite social platform, Snapchat](http://time.com/4359877/snapchat-guide-what-is-how-use/). The Duchess of Cambridge made her Snapchat debut via [tennis champ Serena Williams](http://time.com/4147183/serena-williams-sports-illustrated-sportsperson-year/)‘ account, after Williams won her semi-final at Wimbledon. Williams joked that she was “in the in-crowd now…I’m with royalty,” before turning the Snapchat video on Kate and fellow royal Wimbledon observer, Sophie, Countess of Wessex, both of whom cheesed for the camera. Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4396653/serena-williams-kate-middleton-snapchat-wimbledon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4396653/serena-williams-kate-middleton-snapchat-wimbledon/"},"headline":"Kate Middleton Just Made an Appearance on Serena Williams’ Snapchat","datePublished":"2016-07-07T16:18:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:06:12.925Z","description":"No filter needed for HRH","url":"https://time.com/4396653/serena-williams-kate-middleton-snapchat-wimbledon/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Royal Family","snapchat","kate middleton","royals","serena williams","Wimbledon"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4396653/serena-williams-kate-middleton-snapchat-wimbledon/","name":"Kate Middleton Just Made an Appearance on Serena Williams’ Snapchat"}}]}] ```