{"id":403481,"date":"2025-09-06T20:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T20:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/403481\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T20:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T20:16:10","slug":"king-and-queen-attend-braemar-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/403481\/","title":{"rendered":"King and Queen attend Braemar gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">King Charles and Queen Camilla have been watching Highland games events at the annual Braemar Gathering in Royal Deeside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The spectacle, which is one of the last Highland games of the summer circuit, draws large crowds from around the world and coincides with the monarch&#8217;s annual summer holiday at nearby Balmoral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Before the national anthem was sung there was a minute&#8217;s silence to remember the Duchess of Kent, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cwy5v4lgkqpo\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\" rel=\"noopener\">who died on Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Among the events taking place were caber tossing, hammer throwing, Highland dancing, a hill race and a mass pipe band parade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Saturday&#8217;s Games were the third that the King has attended as monarch, although he frequently attended while he was the Duke of Rothesay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">He donned a kilt for the event, while Queen Camilla wore a blue coat with a tartan collar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The Braemar Gathering takes place annually on the first Saturday of September. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The village, in the heart of the Cairngorms, has hosted the event in its present form for almost 200 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Queen Victoria attended in 1848 and since then, it has been attended regularly by the reigning monarch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King Charles and Queen Camilla have been watching Highland games events at the annual Braemar Gathering in Royal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1760,7710,519],"class_list":{"0":"post-403481","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\/115159196290915500","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403481","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=403481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}