{"id":155515,"date":"2025-06-03T18:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T18:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/155515\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T18:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T18:56:09","slug":"princess-annes-surprise-move-helps-king-charles-strengthen-royal-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/155515\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Anne&#8217;s surprise move helps King Charles strengthen royal ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1318171_8987108_Princess-Anne_updates.jpg\" alt=\"The visit carried a lot of symbolic weight for the Monarchy given Barbados became a republic in 2021\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The visit carried a lot of symbolic weight for the Monarchy given Barbados became a republic in 2021<\/p>\n<p>Princess Anne made a surprise visit to Barbados over the weekend, a move that carried a lot of symbolic weight for the Monarchy. <\/p>\n<p>According to Buckingham\u2019s Palace official statement shared on social media on Tuesday, June 3, the 74-year-old royal met with President Sandra Mason and Prime Minister Mia Mottley during a packed diplomatic trip over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you to everyone who welcomed The Princess Royal to Barbados this weekend!\u201d the statement read. <\/p>\n<p>Although Barbados removed the British monarch as head of state in 2021, the weekend visit was seen as a show of enduring partnership. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBarbados proudly transitioned to a parliamentary republic in 2021. And yet, the bonds between our countries remain strong,\u201d declared acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Sandra Husbands per Barbados Today.<\/p>\n<p>The visit, which wasn\u2019t publicly announced in advance, marked the Princess Royal\u2019s first return to the island since 1966.<\/p>\n<p>Her engagements included commemorating the Monarch\u2019s official birthday (second Saturday of June) at the British High Commission and attending the Duke of Edinburgh\u2019s Commonwealth Study Conferences \u2014 a program she has led since 2011 after assuming the role from her late father Prince Philip. <\/p>\n<p>The Princess also visited the Barbados Defence Force and volunteered at a field medical hospital at Paragon Base in Christ Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The visit carried a lot of symbolic weight for the Monarchy given Barbados became a republic in 2021&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[2639,7709,7730,7731,1760,19663,7710,519],"class_list":{"0":"post-155515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-anne","9":"tag-british-royal-family","10":"tag-charles","11":"tag-charles-iii","12":"tag-king-charles","13":"tag-princess","14":"tag-royal-families","15":"tag-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114620962130610868","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155515","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=155515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}