{"id":599959,"date":"2025-11-28T21:16:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T21:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/599959\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T21:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T21:16:16","slug":"cate-blanchett-receives-freedom-of-city-of-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/599959\/","title":{"rendered":"Cate Blanchett receives Freedom of City of London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chris Hayward, policy chairman of the City of London Corporation, offered Blanchett his &#8220;sincere congratulations&#8221; on receiving the Freedom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Cate Blanchett delivers performances of remarkable depth and authenticity, and, away from acting, she speaks with commendable passion and conviction on humanitarian issues and climate action,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former mayor of the City of London Sir William Russell said: &#8220;Portraying Elizabeth I nearly 30 years ago, Cate&#8217;s commanding presence on screen caught and held our attention, and she has been mesmerising and thrilling audiences ever since&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Her Freedom today, however, is as much about recognising her aims and achievements as a committed campaigner on humanitarian and environmental issues, as it is for her remarkable talents as an actor, director, and producer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c9wdvr4npyqo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Freedom of the City of London<\/a> is a way of paying tribute to an individual&#8217;s outstanding contribution to public life and is believed to have begun in 1237.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Past recipients include comedian, actor and writer Sir Lenny Henry, England football captain Harry Kane and choreographer and director Sir Matthew Bourne. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Hayward, policy chairman of the City of London Corporation, offered Blanchett his &#8220;sincere congratulations&#8221; on receiving the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-599959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115629404392261105","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599959","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=599959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}