{"id":654004,"date":"2025-12-25T11:55:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T11:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/654004\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T11:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T11:55:14","slug":"royal-family-gather-for-christmas-day-service-at-sandringham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/654004\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Family gather for Christmas Day service at Sandringham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Princess Royal and her daughter Zara Tindall, with her family, also attended, along with the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Christmas morning church service is a big event in the royal calendar, bringing together the Royal Family for a public appearance, with crowds and photographers capturing the moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People from across the UK, Europe and the United States queued up from 21:00 on Christmas Eve to wait for a chance to catch a glimpse of the Royal Family on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Just before 11:00 the Royal Family arrived outside the church and were greeted by Reverend Canon Dr Paul Rhys Williams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The service inside the church is being relayed by speakers to the crowd outside, who  waited for the opportunity to chat to the royals afterwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Then, the royals will spend Christmas at their Sandringham estate, which has been the customary seasonal meeting place for the family since 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Princess Royal and her daughter Zara Tindall, with her family, also attended, along with the Duke and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-654004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115780080434891789","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654004","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=654004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}