{"id":601186,"date":"2025-11-29T11:34:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T11:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/601186\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T11:34:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T11:34:18","slug":"royal-family-invite-the-public-to-explore-royal-archive-but-make-embarrassing-blunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/601186\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Family invite the public to ‘explore Royal Archive’ but make embarrassing blunder"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Royal Family has invited the public to look through sections of the Royal Archive, but made an embarrassing blunder.<\/p>\n

Sharing news about the selection of documents on social media, the Royal Family told fans on Instagram to follow the link in its account’s bio to “find out more”.<\/p>\n

Upon clicking the link, users have been taken to a blank page, with one sentence reading: “The requested page could not be found.”<\/p>\n

In an embarrassing blunder, www.royal.uk\/Archive2025 is incorrect, with the correct link being www.royal.uk\/Archive25.<\/p>\n

\"King<\/p>\n

The Royal Family made the embarrassing blunder on its Instagram.<\/p>\n

| GETTY<\/p>\n

When fans do find themselves on the correct webpage, they are taken to a series of “unique and rarely-seen items” put together by a team from the Royal Archives.<\/p>\n

The Royal Family’s team wrote on its website: “The iconic Round Tower of Windsor Castle is home to the Royal Archives – a unique collection of documents relating to the history of the British Monarchy over the last 250 years. <\/p>\n

“Each year, we share items from the Royal Archives as part of the UK-wide initiative ‘Explore Your Archive Week’.<\/p>\n

“The team at the Royal Archives have selected material according to the themes set by The Archives and Records Association for the 2025 campaign. <\/p>\n

\"Royal<\/p>\n

The link sent people to a webpage stating: ‘The requested page could not be found’.<\/p>\n

| <\/p>\n

GB NEWS<\/p>\n

“We hope that these unique and rarely-seen items help you understand more about the work of the archives and the documents they preserve, as well as the history and work of the Royal Family.”<\/p>\n

The archives feature eight different sections separated into: conservation, beauty, medieval, silence, pets, digital, inclusion and anniversaries.<\/p>\n

Details inside include a manuscript purchased by King George V in 1911, written in Norman French and a diary entry from the late King on November 11, 1920, when he unveiled the Cenotaph.<\/p>\n

It also features words from Queen Victoria when she was 13 years old and King George V describing the day of his Silver Jubilee on May 6, 1935.<\/p>\n

\"Cenotaph<\/p>\n

The artefacts featured details of a diary entry from King George V on November 11, 1920, when he unveiled the Cenotaph.<\/p>\n

| PA<\/p>\n

The Royal Family have been capitalising on the opportunity<\/a> to grow their global fan base through social media platforms, according to a former royal butler.<\/p>\n

King Charles and Queen Camilla are represented by the Royal Family’s official social media accounts on Facebook, X and Instagram.<\/p>\n

The Prince and Princess of Wales also have their own social media accounts and regularly post personal messages on their online platforms.<\/p>\n

The former royal butler told GB News that senior royals are embracing social media and using it to their advantage.<\/p>\n

\"KingThe former royal butler told GB News that senior royals are embracing social media and using it to their advantage. | GETTY<\/p>\n

Grant Harold said: “The family has a massive fan base. They’ve got a global fan base, probably more than in the UK.<\/p>\n

“Even other countries love the family, too, and that’s also down to social media.<\/p>\n

“Fifty years ago, 40 years ago, 30 years ago, everyone knew the Royal Family, and what they were doing, the way they had been in the past.<\/p>\n

“Now the world knows about them first, before you even read a bit of the news. It has given their old family a whole new platform, and they’re embracing that to their advantage.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Royal Family has invited the public to look through sections of the Royal Archive, but made an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-601186","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\/115632777619513611","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601186","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=601186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}