{"id":208393,"date":"2025-06-23T19:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T19:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/208393\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T19:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T19:05:10","slug":"prince-edward-plants-atomic-bomb-survivor-tree-seeds-as-king-charles-meets-wartime-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/208393\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Edward plants atomic bomb survivor tree seeds as King Charles meets wartime leader"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The British royal family on Monday shared details of Prince Edward’s recent visit to Belgium.<\/p>\n

According to a statement, the Duke of Edinburgh, who is the youngest brother of King Charles, met International Award Students and discussed their experiences of participating in the Award.”<\/p>\n

The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award (the Award) challenges young people to find their purpose, passion and place in the world.<\/p>\n

During his visit, Edward also viewed the restoration of Hougoumont Gardens at the historic Waterloo Battlefield.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The revival will reinstate the site\u2019s orchard, vegetable plots and the French formal garden,” the statement said.<\/p>\n

It said, “At the battlefield, The Duke also visited the Waterloo Museum and paid tribute to the fallen with wreath-laying ceremonies at the British and French monuments.”<\/p>\n

” There was also the opportunity to plant some \u2018Tree of Peace\u2019 seeds, descended from a tree that survived the atomic bomb in 1945.”<\/p>\n

Tree of Peace \u2014 is symbolically and genetically connected to trees that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.<\/p>\n

\u00a0After the atomic bomb devastated Hiroshima, some trees, despite being located near the hypocenter, miraculously sprouted new growth just weeks later.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Edward’s picture was shared after King Charles welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to Windsor Castle for lunch.<\/p>\n

It was Zelenskyy’s second meeting with King Charles in the UK during the last three months as his country remains locked in a war with Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The British royal family on Monday shared details of Prince Edward’s recent visit to Belgium. According to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-208393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-royal","9":"tag-royal-families","10":"tag-royal-family","11":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114734244069299676","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208393","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=208393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}