{"id":338928,"date":"2025-08-12T16:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T16:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338928\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T16:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T16:52:09","slug":"buckingham-palace-releases-first-statement-after-prince-harrys-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338928\/","title":{"rendered":"Buckingham Palace releases first statement after Prince Harry&#8217;s announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1335247_7500037_Palace_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Buckingham Palace releases first statement after Prince Harrys announcement\" width=\"1200\" height=\"686\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Buckingham Palace releases first statement after Prince Harry&#8217;s announcement<\/p>\n<p>King Charles III&#8217;s office has shared latest update about key royal figure in its first statement since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle&#8217;s bombshell announcement about their plans.<\/p>\n<p>The royal family revealed details about Duchess Sophie&#8217;s latest royal engagement on their official Instagram account with her stunning photos as she sat down with James \u2018Jim\u2019 Wren, a 105-year-old Royal Marines veteran, at his care home in Salisbury, Wiltshire.<\/p>\n<p>Buckingham Palace has issued its first statement since the Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced the extension of their Netflix deal, which was previously set to expire in September 2025.<\/p>\n<p>As per the Palace statement: &#8220;Wren survived the sinking of HMS Repulse in 1941 and was later a Prisoner of War for three and a half years, having been captured whilst escaping from Singapore in February 1942.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It continued: &#8220;Her Royal Highness is Patron of The Java Far East Prisoner of War Club 1942.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the Duke of Sussex\u2019s Invictus Games issued key update, reveling: \u201cWho will host the 2029?!\u201d It also shared a list of cities where the next games are anticipated to take place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buckingham Palace releases first statement after Prince Harry&#8217;s announcement King Charles III&#8217;s office has shared latest update about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7721,7719,7718,7720,1281,447,7710,519,7711],"class_list":{"0":"post-338928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","10":"tag-duke-of-sussex","11":"tag-harry","12":"tag-meghan","13":"tag-meghan-markle","14":"tag-prince-harry","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-uk-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115016836391050256","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338928","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=338928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}