{"id":272400,"date":"2025-07-18T15:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T15:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/272400\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T15:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T15:47:12","slug":"live-prince-william-releases-personal-message-meghan-markle-suffers-disappointing-blow-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/272400\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: Prince William releases personal message, Meghan Markle suffers &#8216;disappointing&#8217; blow &#038; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Anne-iversary!<\/p>\n<p id=\"eDrMmS43sN\">As well as her busy day of engagements (and we&#8217;d expect nothing less from the hardest-working royal!), today is special for our beloved Princess Anne, as her lifetime of service is set to be formally celebrated with t<a class=\"hm-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hellomagazine.com\/royalty\/845099\/princess-anne-first-coin-75th-birthday-fans-same-reaction\/\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"article-body-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he first-ever official UK coin dedicated to her <\/a>&#8211; it&#8217;s been a long time coming!<\/p>\n<p id=\"e47VVuC-nx\">Unveiled in celebration of her 75th birthday, this commemorative piece from The Royal Mint has been dubbed the &#8220;Anne-iversary coin.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/9c8ecf54897c-princess-anne-tiara-2.jpg\"   width=\"681\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Princess Anne close up wearing tiara\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" class=\"image image\"\/>\u00a9 GettyPrincess Anne, Princess Royal attends the Lord Mayor&#8217;s Banquet at the Guildhall <\/p>\n<p id=\"eDEgMVZIP8\">The \u00a35 piece received personal approval from the Princess herself and features a striking portrait of the King&#8217;s sister, depicting her with her signature bouffant hairstyle, elegantly swept up and adorned with the magnificent Aquamarine Pineflower Tiara.<\/p>\n<p id=\"e1kGgoaTQq\">On the exciting new coin, Rebecca Morgan, director of commemorative coin at the Royal Mint, said: &#8220;For the first time in British numismatic history, we are honoured to celebrate the Princess Royal on an official UK coin.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ebiqJ65i5o\">&#8220;Her Royal Highness&#8217;s unwavering commitment to public service, charitable work, and support of His Majesty\u2019s armed forces over seven and a half decades makes her truly deserving of this tribute.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"eEY_h4Enla\">To the right of the princess\u2019s portrait is a depiction of her official coat of arms, and on the obverse is the King, who gave the creation its final sign-off in honour of his sister.<\/p>\n<p id=\"eeio7aToll\">Thomas T Docherty, who designed the coin, said it reflected the Princess&#8217; &#8220;strength of character&#8221; and &#8220;understated elegance&#8221;. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Happy Anne-iversary! As well as her busy day of engagements (and we&#8217;d expect nothing less from the hardest-working&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[13080,1281,532,5118,5105,7710,519,448,7796,13083],"class_list":{"0":"post-272400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royals","9":"tag-meghan-markle","10":"tag-prince-william","11":"tag-princess-anne","12":"tag-royal","13":"tag-royal-families","14":"tag-royal-family","15":"tag-royals","16":"tag-royalty","17":"tag-zara-tindall"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114875023066731525","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272400","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=272400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}