{"id":376751,"date":"2025-08-27T04:48:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T04:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/376751\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T04:48:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T04:48:22","slug":"king-charles-wishes-lesser-known-royal-on-milestone-birthday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/376751\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles wishes lesser-known royal on milestone birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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King Charles wishes lesser-known royal on milestone birthday<\/p>\n

King Charles has marked the milestone birthday of a special Royal Family member.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, August 26, the British monarch released a new portrait of the Duke of Gloucester, Prince Richard, to celebrate his 81st birthday.<\/p>\n

His Majesty took to Instagram to pen a short but sweet birthday wish for the key royal, noting, \u201cHappy Birthday to the Duke of Gloucester.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the shared portrait, the Duke of Gloucester looked dapper in a three-piece suit, with his white hair neatly parted to one side.<\/p>\n

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As per the Royal Family website, Richard plays a key role in the Royal Family by supporting the monarchy through numerous public duties, undertaking hundreds of official engagements in the UK and overseas each year.<\/p>\n

The Duke is associated with over 150 charities and organizations in the Britain. His patronages include international humanitarian issues, heritage and the built environment and military veterans.<\/p>\n

On the work front, he was elected a corporate member of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1972. Currently, he is serving as a President of the Scottish Society of the Architect-Artists. <\/p>\n

The key royal was born on 26 August 1944 at 12:15 pm at St Matthew’s Nursing Home in Northampton.<\/p>\n

Richard tied the knot with Birgitte van Deurs Henriksen in 1972. The royal couple share three kids Alexander Windsor, Lady Rose Gilman and Lady Davina Windsor.<\/p>\n

To note, he is 32nd in the line of succession to the British throne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King Charles wishes lesser-known royal on milestone birthday King Charles has marked the milestone birthday of a special…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1760,7710,519],"class_list":{"0":"post-376751","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-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-royal-families","13":"tag-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115098924157532968","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376751","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=376751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}