{"id":205900,"date":"2025-06-22T20:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T20:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/205900\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T20:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T20:03:09","slug":"king-charles-queen-camilla-and-princess-eugenie-celebrate-final-day-of-the-royal-ascot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/205900\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles, Queen Camilla, and Princess Eugenie Celebrate Final Day of the Royal Ascot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paywall\">Instead, William arrived on Wednesday with the king and queen, just days before his 43rd birthday (June 21) and days after his entire family <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/story\/trooping-the-colour-2025-prince-william-kate-middleton-king-charles?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">turned out for 2025\u2019s Trooping the Colour event<\/a>. In fact, it\u2019s that confluence of events that might have spurred Middleton\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cCatherine would have loved to be at Ascot. It\u2019s always a fun day out, but the UK is having a heatwave, and she is trying to pace herself,\u201d a friend of the princess told VF last week. \u201cTrooping and the Garter were big occasions and very important dates in the royal calendar that the Princess wanted to be at. She was there and looked wonderful and played her part.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>King Charles III and Queen Camilla present the trophy after the victory of horse Lazzat in the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes on the fifth day of the Royal Ascot horse race meeting in Ascot, United Kingdom on June 21, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Wiktor Szymanowicz\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Meanwhile, the king and queen endured the heat to present the owners of French runner <strong>Lazzat<\/strong> with the trophy in the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes. But not before Lazzat attempted to pull a Princess Cate of his own, unshipping jockey <strong>James Doyle<\/strong> (who was uninjured) and taking off down the Ascot course, as handlers scrambled to contain him.<\/p>\n<p>James Doyle looks on towards Lazzat after being unseated after winning the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes during day five of Royal Ascot at Ascot Racecourse, Berkshire. Picture date: Saturday June 21, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>David Davies &#8211; PA Images\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cHe\u2019s a funny character,\u201d trainer <strong>Jerome Reynier<\/strong> said. \u201cThat is why he is Lazzat, and he is our champion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Instead, William arrived on Wednesday with the king and queen, just days before his 43rd birthday (June 21)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[1759,533,518,532,24016,13084,5105,46788,7710,519,82894,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-205900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-camilla-parker-bowles","9":"tag-kate-middleton","10":"tag-king-charles-iii","11":"tag-prince-william","12":"tag-princes-william","13":"tag-princess-eugenie","14":"tag-royal","15":"tag-royal-ascot","16":"tag-royal-families","17":"tag-royal-family","18":"tag-royal-watch","19":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114728809775689299","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205900","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=205900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}