{"id":228802,"date":"2025-07-01T08:18:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T08:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/228802\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T08:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T08:18:14","slug":"king-and-queen-to-attend-events-in-edinburgh-as-royal-week-begins-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/228802\/","title":{"rendered":"King and Queen to attend events in Edinburgh as Royal Week begins \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The King and Queen will carry out a series of engagements in\u00a0Edinburgh as Royal Week gets under way in Scotland.<\/p>\n

Charles will begin his official engagements by receiving a Royal Salute and inspecting The King\u2019s Bodyguard Scotland (Royal Company of Archers) Guard of Honour in the gardens of the Palace of Holyroodhouse.<\/p>\n

He will then take part in the Ceremony of the Keys which welcomes him to the Scottish capital.<\/p>\n

The Lord Provost Robert Aldridge will present the Keys to the City of Edinburgh to the King, who then returns them for safe keeping.<\/p>\n

\"Key<\/a>\"Sir<\/a>\"TheThe King and Queen will carry out engagements at the Palace of Holyroodhouse (Chris Jackson\/PA) <\/p>\n

The King will also preside over an investiture ceremony at the Palace of Holyroodhouse on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Those receiving honours will include artist Barbara Rae, who was awarded a damehood for services to art in the New Year Honours, and Scotland\u2019s most decorated Olympian, Duncan Scott, who becomes an OBE for services to swimming.<\/p>\n

Swimmer Stephen Clegg, who won two gold medals at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris and becomes an MBE for services to swimming, will also attend.<\/p>\n

The monarch traditionally spends a week based at the Palace of Holyroodhouse each year in what is known as Holyrood Week or Royal Week in Scotland.<\/p>\n

Later on Tuesday, the King and Queen will host guests at a garden party at the palace, alongside the Princess Royal and Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The King and Queen will carry out a series of engagements in\u00a0Edinburgh as Royal Week gets under way…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[1102,15277,90021,4575,5105,7710,519,448,712,16],"class_list":{"0":"post-228802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-edinburgh","9":"tag-king","10":"tag-palace-of-holyroodhouse","11":"tag-queen","12":"tag-royal","13":"tag-royal-families","14":"tag-royal-family","15":"tag-royals","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-uk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114776998788627850","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228802","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=228802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}