{"id":245727,"date":"2025-07-07T16:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T16:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/245727\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T16:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T16:44:12","slug":"touching-edinburgh-moment-shows-how-far-the-king-and-queen-have-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/245727\/","title":{"rendered":"Touching Edinburgh moment shows ‘how far the King and Queen have come’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A royal <\/a>commentator has said a touching moment between King Charles<\/a> and Queen Camilla in Edinburgh shows ‘how far they’ve come’.<\/p>\n

The royal couple were in Scotland for Holyrood Week<\/a>, and attended St Giles’ Cathedral on July 2 for the unveiling of a commemorative stone honouring the late Queen. The King and Queen seemed to experience some confusion about their positioning in a rare light-hearted moment, reports Gloucestershire Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As Camilla looked uncertain about her placement, the couple quickly recognised the amusing nature of their predicament before finding their proper positions.<\/p>\n

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During a recent instalment of the A Right Royal podcast, Sky News’ royal correspondent Rhiannon Mills explained how she felt the moment highlighted “how far” the pair have progressed through the years, commenting: “They are such a good working partnership, and how far they’ve come since a couple of decades ago, and public perceptions of them and their relationship.”<\/p>\n

She continued: “Whatever you want to say about them, they are this perfect partnership, and I think he gets great joy from being around her. They have a laugh.”<\/p>\n

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In addition to the poignant moment inside St Giles’ Cathedral, the couple visited several of the nation’s most renowned sites to commemorate Holyrood Week. Holyrood Week, a long-standing royal tradition typically held in July, sees the monarch touring the country, visiting various locations to celebrate Scottish culture, achievement, and community.<\/p>\n

True to tradition, last week’s series of events began with the King and Queen participating in the Ceremony of the Keys in the gardens of the Palace of Holyroodhouse.<\/p>\n

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At the commencement of last Tuesday’s (July 1) proceedings, Lord Provost of Edinburgh Robert Aldridge presented the keys on a red cushion, which King Charles touched, adhering to custom.<\/p>\n

Later, the King presided over an honours ceremony, bestowing awards upon notable figures such as Scotland’s most decorated Olympian, Duncan Scott (OBE); double Paralympic swimming champion Stephen Clegg (MBE); and artist Barbara Rae (Damehood), at the Palace of Holyroodhouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A royal commentator has said a touching moment between King Charles and Queen Camilla in Edinburgh shows ‘how…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,91561,13483,1760,95392,2607,712,56534,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-245727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-holyrood-week","12":"tag-king-and-queen","13":"tag-king-charles","14":"tag-poignant-moment","15":"tag-queen-camilla","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-st-giles-cathedral","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114812962137623887","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245727","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=245727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}