{"id":100932,"date":"2025-05-14T13:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/100932\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T13:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:56:09","slug":"prince-william-to-receive-new-title-as-king-charles-marks-rare-royal-family-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/100932\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William to receive new title as King Charles marks rare Royal Family first"},"content":{"rendered":"

The King and the Prince of Wales will attend the Order of the Bath Service at Westminster Abbey this Friday, marking the Order’s 300th anniversary year.<\/p>\n

This will be a rare Royal Family first for the King as it will be his first service as Sovereign of the ancient order.<\/p>\n

The ceremony on 16th May 2025 continues a tradition established in 1725 by Letters Patent of George I.<\/p>\n

The Prince of Wales will be installed as Great Master of the Order during the ceremony.<\/p>\n

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The King and the Prince of Wales will attend the Order of the Bath Service at Westminster Abbey this Friday, marking the Order’s 300th anniversary year.<\/p>\n

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The service will include the oath taking and installation of five Knights.<\/p>\n

Members of the Order of the Bath today include military officers and senior civil servants.<\/p>\n

His Majesty was previously installed as Great Master by Queen Elizabeth II in 1975.<\/p>\n

The King and the Prince of Wales will be received at the Great West Door of the Abbey before joining the procession.<\/p>\n

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His Majesty was previously installed as Great Master by Queen Elizabeth II in 1975.<\/p>\n

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They will process with the Officers and Knights and Dame Grand Cross through the church.<\/p>\n

Both royals will take their seats in the Quire during the ceremony.<\/p>\n

Charles and William will later process to the Henry VII Lady Chapel for the Installation ceremonies.<\/p>\n

The Service for the Order of the Bath takes place every four years, with the Sovereign traditionally attending every other service.<\/p>\n

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Charles and William will later process to the Henry VII Lady Chapel for the Installation ceremonies.<\/p>\n

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The Prince of Wales, as Great Master, attends each service.<\/p>\n

The King, as Prince of Wales, last attended in 2022.<\/p>\n

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath was established by Letters Patent of George I on 18th May 1725.<\/p>\n

The Order is a revival of an older custom dating back to medieval times when part of the ceremony of knighthood included a ritual bath.<\/p>\n

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The King, as Prince of Wales, last attended in 2022.<\/p>\n

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This symbolic bath represented spiritual purification and included a vigil the night before receiving the honour.<\/p>\n

The order consists of three classes of members: Knight or Dame Grand Cross (GCB), Knight or Dame Commander (KCB\/DCB) and Companion (CB).<\/p>\n

Women were admitted to the Order in 1971, marking a significant change in its long history.<\/p>\n

Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, became the first Dame Grand Cross.<\/p>\n

The Dean of Westminster serves as Dean of the Order in perpetuity, with King Henry VII’s Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey designated as the Chapel of the Order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The King and the Prince of Wales will attend the Order of the Bath Service at Westminster Abbey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[1760,12,532,5105,7710,519,448,512,978],"class_list":{"0":"post-100932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-king-charles","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-prince-william","11":"tag-royal","12":"tag-royal-families","13":"tag-royal-family","14":"tag-royals","15":"tag-sgg","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114506536475997234","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}