{"id":67084,"date":"2025-05-02T00:58:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T00:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/67084\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T00:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T00:58:15","slug":"charles-and-camilla-plant-beautiful-swedish-oak-with-king-and-queen-of-sweden-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/67084\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles and Camilla plant \u2018beautiful\u2019 Swedish oak with King and Queen of Sweden \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The King and Queen were given a \u201cbeautiful\u201d Swedish oak tree by the King and Queen of Sweden, which they planted together in the grounds of Windsor Castle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Charles and Camilla welcomed Carl Gustaf and his wife Silvia to the Home Park at Windsor Castle on Thursday, where they planted the young Swedish oak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In the sunny grounds on the hottest start to May since records began, the kings put soil over the base of the tree before the queens watered it together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWith any luck it\u2019ll take to the soil, I hope,\u201d Charles said.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/uk\/votes-being-counted-as-farage-seeks-to-smash-the-two-party-system-P3M2QZH3FFL2XIWLYOMRWUFLP4\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Votes being counted as Farage seeks to &#x2018;smash the two-party system&#x2019;\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SINDN3RRVRKVVHSR2IBTTTU2VI.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/uk\/william-pays-tribute-to-legend-of-rugby-league-and-mnd-campaigner-rob-burrow-HETG3Y77WFOQRCSWZAZFCENSIE\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"William pays tribute to &#x2018;legend of Rugby League&#x2019; and MND campaigner Rob Burrow\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CKTMV3Y3JRNRVO34VUSOI5OAAY.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"The spade that King Gustaf V used in 1908 to plant an English oak tree in Windsor Great Park\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/NTVZXQCN4ZP7JAGVAMFTQUYCWQ.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>The spade that King Gustaf V used in 1908 to plant an English oak tree in Windsor Great Park (Yui Mok\/PA) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The King thanked the Swedish royal family\u2019s gardeners for the tree, and Camilla said it was beautiful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The King of Sweden used a spade which his great grandfather, Gustavus V, used to plant an English oak in Windsor Great Park in 1908.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A member of the Crown estate told reporters: \u201cIt is now a big oak tree that is still alive today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The tree was planted to mark Charles and Camilla\u2019s coronation, almost two years ago, and is twinned with another Swedish oak that will be planted by Victoria, the Crown Princess of Sweden, at the Royal Djurgarden in Stockholm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The King and Queen were given a \u201cbeautiful\u201d Swedish oak tree by the King and Queen of Sweden,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,5117,7730,7731,15277,1760,33998,4575,5105,7710,519,29367,16],"class_list":{"0":"post-67084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-camilla","10":"tag-charles","11":"tag-charles-iii","12":"tag-king","13":"tag-king-charles","14":"tag-king-of-sweden","15":"tag-queen","16":"tag-royal","17":"tag-royal-families","18":"tag-royal-family","19":"tag-south-east","20":"tag-uk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114435529598019935","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67084","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=67084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}