15:26 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nA student from Norfolk has said he is “overwhelmed” by the success of a spoof music video he helped make about Prince William and Kate Middleton.<\/p>\n
Ollie Boesen, from Great Ryburgh, directed and edited a reworking of Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance.<\/p>\n
He also stars in the “Royal Romance” video as part of a capella choir The Other Guys, formed at St Andrews University, where the royal couple met.<\/p>\n
The video has now had nearly 250,000 hits on YouTube.<\/p>\n
The 11-strong group’s performance, in which they are seen chasing around the university town after a Kate Middleton look-a-like, has achieved the thousands of views on the video-sharing site in eight days.<\/p>\n
“We’ve been overwhelmed by how it’s been received,” said Mr Boesen, 22, a history undergraduate at the university.<\/p>\n
“There’s a lot of affection here at St Andrews for the royal couple and it was a bit of good-natured fun.”<\/p>\n
The former Gresham’s School pupil said he was encouraged to make the video after travelling around America to produce a documentary on 1960s folk music for his dissertation.<\/p>\n
At one point in the video Mr Boesen is seen being pushed into the North Sea by Kate Middleton’s character, who is played by friend and first-year St Andrews student Francesca Heartfield.<\/p>\n
“The resemblance to Kate Middleton is quite striking and when she heard she could push me into the sea she was quite keen to do it,” he said.<\/p>\n
Mr Boesen, a fourth year student, said his finals were just a month away but said he was trying to juggle his studies with the attention the video has brought, including interest from US TV networks.<\/p>\n
“I’m trying to take one day at time and I just want to get through my course,” he said.<\/p>\n
“However, I don’t want to let any good opportunities go by.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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