{"id":609495,"date":"2025-12-03T12:17:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T12:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/609495\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:17:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T12:17:26","slug":"duchess-of-edinburgh-to-visit-alderney-for-80th-homecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/609495\/","title":{"rendered":"Duchess of Edinburgh to visit Alderney for 80th Homecoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The Duchess of Edinburgh is set to visit Alderney to mark the 80th anniversary of Homecoming Day.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The duchess will join islanders to celebrate the return of evacuees after the end of World War Two on 15 December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lt Gen Sir Richard Cripwell, Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey, said Homecoming was &#8220;always a very special occasion&#8221; and he was sure the duchess &#8220;will enjoy meeting with Homecomers, hearing their stories and sharing in Alderney&#8217;s special day&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alderney celebrates Homecoming when the first families who were evacuated in 1940 arrived home some seven months after the island&#8217;s liberation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Duchess of Edinburgh is set to visit Alderney to mark the 80th anniversary of Homecoming Day. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-609495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115655595992309994","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609495","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=609495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}