{"id":624440,"date":"2025-12-10T15:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/624440\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T15:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:15:16","slug":"king-charles-shares-touching-advent-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/624440\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles Shares Touching Advent Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re anything like me, you shot out of bed, bleary-eyed, and thought, How is it already December? Yet it is\u2014and that means one thing: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purewow.com\/food\/nontraditional-christmas-dinner-ideas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christmas<\/a> is coming. For many, that means the arrival of Saint Nick, clambering down chimneys with a sack full of toys. But if you&#8217;re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purewow.com\/news\/king-charles-77th-birthday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">King Charles<\/a>, it also means something else.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since Elizabeth I permanently separated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1570 (finishing the work her father, the infamous Hentry VIII, began in 1534), the monarch has served as the head of the Anglican Church. As such, King Charles did his duty this morning at a service held in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purewow.com\/news\/kate-middleton-together-at-christmas-after-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Westminster Abbey<\/a>. Later, the royal family shared a snippet of his speech to Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you&#8217;re anything like me, you shot out of bed, bleary-eyed, and thought, How is it already December?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-624440","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624440","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=624440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}