"It was amazing for me to announce the birth of the royal baby," Badar told a TV news channel.
Badar, a hospitality management degree holder from Kolkata, was photographed with the Press Secretary of the Buckingham Palace.
Asked why he returned to India leaving the high-profile job in London, Badar said "my visa expired on July 28 and that's the reason I came back."
Badar, an alumni of Kolkata's St Mary's Orphanage and Day school, comes from a humble background. His father works as a welder in a factory.
The orphanage sponsored Azim's higher education and sent him to Scotland where he completed his degree at Edinburgh's Napier University.
After he graduated in June 2011, he got a job as a junior footman at Buckingham Palace in February 2012.
Asked whether he would return if he receives a new visa, Badar said "Yes. If I get a new visa I will go back and it would be a privilege to work for the royal palace.
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