{"id":385725,"date":"2025-08-30T20:21:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T20:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/385725\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T20:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T20:21:15","slug":"this-surprising-royal-just-got-a-promotion-fancy-new-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/385725\/","title":{"rendered":"This Surprising Royal Just Got a Promotion &#038; Fancy New Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Timothy Laurence, husband to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purewow.com\/news\/princess-anne-birthday-portrait\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Princess Anne<\/a> for the last 33 years, has been promoted from Knight Commander to Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, according to a press release from Buckingham Palace. This incredible honor is the highest title available within the Order, which recognizes personal service to the royal family or the monarch.<\/p>\n<p>Laurence\u2019s new title puts him on par with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purewow.com\/news\/queen-camilla-striking-photo-in-car\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queen Camilla<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purewow.com\/news\/duchess-sophie-maximalist-dress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Duchess of Edinburgh<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purewow.com\/news\/kate-middleton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Princess of Wales<\/a>, but it\u2019s particularly notable as he is the only non-working royal to be awarded the honor. Congratulations, Tim!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Timothy Laurence, husband to Princess Anne for the last 33 years, has been promoted from Knight Commander&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-385725","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115119579767177118","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385725","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=385725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}