{"id":405932,"date":"2025-09-07T18:55:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T18:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/405932\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T18:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T18:55:14","slug":"king-charles-sir-keir-starmer-unite-amid-royal-familys-somber-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/405932\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles, Sir Keir Starmer unite amid Royal Family\u2019s somber time"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"King<\/p>\n

King Charles, Sir Keir Starmer seen together amid Royal Family\u2019s somber time<\/p>\n

King Charles and Keir Starmer attended a Sunday church service together in Scotland, marking a rare public appearance side by side.<\/p>\n

The British Monarch and the UK Prime Minister were accompanied by Queen Camilla and Lady Starmer at Crathie Kirk.<\/p>\n

The service included prayers for the Duchess of Kent and to mark the third anniversary of the Accession, with attire reflecting the period of royal mourning. <\/p>\n

The sermon was delivered by the Right Revd Rosie Frew, Moderator of the Church of Scotland\u2019s General Assembly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Notably, their outing came after Buckingham Palace announced that the Duchess of Kent died at Kensington Palace on Thursday evening, surrounded by family.<\/p>\n

The Palace confirmed that King Charles, Queen Camilla, and other members of the Royal Family are in mourning after the death of the Duchess of Kent. <\/p>\n

On Friday, Sir Keir Starmer paid an emotional tribute and offered his condolences to the Royal Family.<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister mentioned the \u201ccompassion, dignity and a human touch\u201d that Katherine, the Duchess of Kent brought to everything she did during his tribute to the royal.<\/p>\n

Sir Keir said: \u201cI wish to send my sincere condolences to His Majesty The King and the Royal Family on the death of Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Kent.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Duchess of Kent’s funeral will take place at Westminster Cathedral on 16 September, Buckingham Palace has announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King Charles, Sir Keir Starmer seen together amid Royal Family\u2019s somber time King Charles and Keir Starmer attended…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-405932","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\/115164540035393916","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405932","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=405932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}