{"id":485699,"date":"2025-10-09T13:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/485699\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T13:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:07:10","slug":"nigel-farage-issues-unusual-invitation-to-king-charles-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/485699\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage issues unusual invitation to King Charles | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Nigel Farage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/nigel-farage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nigel Farage<\/a> has invited <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"King Charles III\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/king-charles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">King Charles<\/a> to <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/1692495\/King-Charles-III-lime-tree-COP27-Buckingham-Palace-Queen-Elizabeth-II-ont\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plant a tree at St Osyth Priory<\/a> in his constituency, Clacton. Taking to X, the Reform UK founder and leader Farage shared a video whether he shared that he wanted to offer the King a change to follow in the footsteps of the late Queen Elizabeth I.<\/p>\n<p>His tweet, alongside a video explaing more about the proposal, <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/politics\/2119123\/nigel-farage-keir-starmer-digital-id\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Farage said<\/a>: &#8220;I am inviting His Majesty the King to visit St Osyth Priory in my constituency and plant a new tree, following in the footsteps of Queen Elizabeth I [green-tree emoji].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the video, he said: &#8220;Elizabeth the First, this tree was planted when she was here and what they are looking for the King or a senior member of the Royal Family to come and plant another tree [and] this is the application that&#8217;s going to be going in&#8221;, adding, &#8220;It&#8217;s certainly going to have my support as the local MP.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also added: &#8220;It would be a really wonderful thing for a modern-day royal visit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the King and Queen joined King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden to plant a tree in the Home Park of Windsor Castle.<\/p>\n<p>Joining the two European monarchies together, the sapling was planted to celebrate the coronation of King Charles and Queen Camilla back in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration took place two days before the second anniversary of the King\u2019s coronation.<\/p>\n<p>The King also planted a tree during his visit to Italy back in April, where he joked about his health.<\/p>\n<p>Turning to speak to members of the embassy who had gathered on the lawns, he quipped: &#8220;Well I do hope that I shall live long enough to see a little bit of growth in the tree.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Charles then unveiled a plaque to commemorate the occasion, before pointing at the newly planted tree and saying that it &#8220;needs a bit of water&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage has invited King Charles to plant a tree at St Osyth Priory in his constituency, Clacton.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1760,518,2658,160711,384,160712,7710,519],"class_list":{"0":"post-485699","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-king-charles-iii","13":"tag-king-charles-news","14":"tag-king-charles-plant-tree","15":"tag-nigel-farage","16":"tag-nigel-farage-x","17":"tag-royal-families","18":"tag-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115344365833102926","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485699","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=485699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}