{"id":160270,"date":"2026-09-05T17:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T17:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/160270\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T17:55:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T17:55:32","slug":"british-embassy-tallinn-celebrates-100-years-of-friendship-between-the-uk-and-estonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/160270\/","title":{"rendered":"British Embassy Tallinn celebrates 100 years of friendship between the UK and Estonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gem-c-lead-paragraph govuk-!-margin-bottom-8\" dir=\"ltr\">\n    British Embassy Tallinn will hold a series of events in 2018 to celebrate the Estonian Centenary and 100 years of friendship between our two countries.\n<\/p>\n<p>      This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"gem-c-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/s300_kook.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"gem-c-figure__figcaption-text\">\n            100 Years of Friendship\n          <\/p>\n<p>On 10 January British Ambassador to Estonia Theresa Bubbear announced the launch of a series of events that the British Embassy will hold throughout 2018 to celebrate the Estonian Centenary and 100 years of friendship between our two countries. These will include \u201cPop up Embassy\u201d visits to each of Estonia\u2019s 15 counties; an online exhibition on the Royal Navy\u2019s support during Estonia\u2019s War of Independence and a competition for school children to win invitations to this year\u2019s Queen\u2019s Birthday Party.<\/p>\n<p>British Ambassador Theresa Bubbear said at the launch event:<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I am delighted that the Embassy can play a part in celebrating the Estonian centenary and I do hope that many people can take part in our events to learn more about the UK and the long-lasting friendship between our countries. We are celebrating 100 years of friendship, but also looking ahead at the next 100 years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/s960_cut.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Cutting the cake<\/p>\n<p>Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sven Mikser commented:<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We will always remember the special role of British naval and air forces during the Estonian War of Independence. No country or an individual can survive on its own, the co-operation is everything. It has been like that in the past and in the globalizing world the ties are going to be even stronger between Estonia and the UK.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/s960_pins.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Gifts for the guests<\/p>\n<p>For more information on \u201cpop-up embassies\u201d and other Centenary related activities of the British Embassy please follow the Embassy on social media at <a rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BritishEmbassyTallinn\/\" target=\"_blank\">British Embassy Tallinn on Facebook<\/a> and <a rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukinestonia\" target=\"_blank\">@UKinEstonia on Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An online exhibition on the Royal Navy\u2019s support during Estonia\u2019s War of Independence is being created in collaboration with Estonian Maritime Museum, Estonian National Archive and Estonian National Library and will be located at <a rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ukandestonia.ee\/en_GB\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.UKandEstonia.ee<\/a>. The Maritime Museum will be hosting a sister exhibition at Sea Plane Harbour in autumn.<\/p>\n<p>      Share this page<\/p>\n<p class=\"govuk-body-s\">\n      The following links open in a new tab\n    <\/p>\n<p>    Updates to this page<\/p>\n<p>Published 12 January 2018<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British Embassy Tallinn will hold a series of events in 2018 to celebrate the Estonian Centenary and 100&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[89],"tags":[167,166],"class_list":["post-160270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallinn","tag-estonia","tag-tallinn"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117219723180481386","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}