{"id":228617,"date":"2025-07-01T06:41:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T06:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/228617\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T06:41:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T06:41:15","slug":"royal-train-to-be-decommissioned-as-monarchy-cost-the-british-taxpayer-86-3-million-in-the-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/228617\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal train to be decommissioned as monarchy cost the British taxpayer \u00a386.3 million in the last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Chalmers, Keeper of the Privy Purse, described the monarchy\u2019s value as increasingly recognised. \u201cSoft power is hard to measure,\u201d he said, \u201cbut its value is, I believe, now firmly understood at home and abroad, as the core themes of the new reign have come into even sharper focus, and the Royal Family have continued in their service to the nation, Realms and Commonwealth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Chalmers, Keeper of the Privy Purse, described the monarchy\u2019s value as increasingly recognised. \u201cSoft power is hard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,2633,393,4884,518,257,8688,14066,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-228617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-buckingham-palace","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-king-charles-iii","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-the-royal-family","15":"tag-the-royals","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114776616802828136","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228617","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=228617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}