{"id":348596,"date":"2025-08-16T07:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T07:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/348596\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T07:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T07:40:12","slug":"prince-edward-duchess-sophie-represent-royal-family-at-major-vj-day-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/348596\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Edward, Duchess Sophie represent royal family at major VJ Day service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/619044_6064551_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Prince Edward, Duchess Sophie mark VJ Day in Edinburgh\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Prince Edward, Duchess Sophie mark VJ Day in Edinburgh<\/p>\n<p>While King Charles and Queen Camilla led the main national service in England, Prince Edward and Duchess Sophie attended a Service of Remembrance at  the Scottish War Memorial in Edinburgh Castle.<\/p>\n<p>To mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, the ceremony commemorated eight decades since Japan formally surrendered to the Allies following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.<\/p>\n<p>The official Instagram handle of the royal family posted photos from Edward and Sophie\u2019s attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the photos, the caption read, \u201cThe Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh have attended a Service of Remembrance at the Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh Castle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrganised by the Royal British Legion Scotland, Their Royal Highnesses joined attendees in commemorating the 80th anniversary of VJ Day,\u201d it further read.<\/p>\n<p>In the photos shared, Prince Edward can be seen laying down the wreath at the memorial, meanwhile some showed Duchess Sophie talking to veterans.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, King Charles and Queen Camilla attended the National Memorial Arboretum service in England. <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Charles also marked the 80th anniversary of VJ Day with an emotional speech to the nation in an audio message released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Edward, Duchess Sophie mark VJ Day in Edinburgh While King Charles and Queen Camilla led the main&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-348596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-royal","9":"tag-royal-families","10":"tag-royal-family","11":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348596","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=348596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}