{"id":873442,"date":"2026-04-05T09:46:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/873442\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T09:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:46:20","slug":"royal-family-shares-easter-post-on-social-media-as-king-criticised-for-not-issuing-personal-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/873442\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Family shares Easter post on social media as King criticised for not issuing personal message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Family has shared a post on social media celebrating Easter Sunday, following Buckingham Palace&#8217;s announcement earlier this week that King Charles will not issue a message.<\/p>\n<p>The monarch, who is not required to share a message, has previously done so in 2024 with a pre-recorded speech played at the Maundy service and in 2025 with a full written message published on the Royal Family&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>On social media today, the Royal Family shared an image of a cross with a graphic reading: &#8220;Happy Easter. He is risen!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The post was accompanied by a caption leading with a chicken hatching from an egg, a cross, and text saying: &#8220;Wishing a joyous Easter Sunday to Christians celebrating in the UK, the Commonwealth and around the world today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"KIng Charles | Source: GETTY\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/398c0a6b714193d25717f75311fd9fd5.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>KIng Charles | Source: GETTY<\/p>\n<p>The King has come under fire for not issuing a message this year, with social media users commenting on the post, expressing their discontent.<\/p>\n<p>One user wrote: &#8220;And where is the King&#8217;s message, very disappointing,&#8221; while another said: &#8220;Would appreciate this more with an Easter Message from our King.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One other social media user said: &#8220;We are hurting as a nation, we needed a message of Easter hope.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.com\/royal\/king-charles-islam-easter-message-royal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Last year, the King issued his Easter message;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Last year, the King issued his Easter message<\/a> on Maundy Thursday, which read: &#8220;On Maundy Thursday, Jesus knelt and washed the feet of many of those who would abandon Him.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Royal Family post | Source: INSTAGRAM\/THEROYALFAMILY\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"1007\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3186f19afbdd961f1a38a1d0bfe0f60e.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Royal Family post | Source: INSTAGRAM\/THEROYALFAMILY<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His humble action was a token of His love that knew no bounds or boundaries and is central to Christian belief.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The King also spoke about Judaism and Islam, adding: &#8220;The love He showed when He walked the Earth reflected the Jewish ethic of caring for the stranger and those in need, a deep human instinct echoed in Islam and other religious traditions, and in the hearts of all who seek the good of others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His Majesty&#8217;s message from last year continued: &#8220;The abiding message of Easter is that God so loved the world &#8211; the whole world &#8211; that He sent His son to live among us to show us how to love one another, and to lay down His own life for others in a love that proved stronger than death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are three virtues that the world still needs &#8211; faith, hope and love. &#8216;And the greatest of these is love&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Queen Elizabeth | Source: GETTY\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"1433\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/b6f9eec720726215c0ecc365f4523c84.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Queen Elizabeth | Source: GETTY<\/p>\n<p>His message concluded: &#8220;It is with these timeless truths in my mind, and my heart, that I wish you all a blessed and peaceful Easter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The King&#8217;s mother, Queen Elizabeth II, did not issue an Easter message every year, but provided a special televised appearance in 2020 during Covid.<\/p>\n<p>The late Queen followed up the year after with a written Easter message during ongoing restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>King Charles and Queen Camilla will attend the traditional Easter church service in Windsor today.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"King Charles and Camilla | Source: PA\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/b6f80ed86ebfd5e45ea83940fcd753e0.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>King Charles and Camilla | Source: PA<\/p>\n<p>The royal couple will be joined by the Prince and Princess of Wales at the service.<\/p>\n<p>Notable absentees will be Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor&#8217;s daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, who have made separate plans with the agreement of the King.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Charles and Camilla were joined by the former Duke of York and his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, at the 15th-century chapel on Easter Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the King has revoked Andrew&#8217;s rights to be a prince and his dukedom due to his connection with Jeffrey Epstein, though Beatrice and Eugenie retain their princess titles.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew was arrested in February, on his 66th birthday, on suspicion of misconduct in public office after allegations that he shared sensitive information during his time as the UK&#8217;s trade envoy.<\/p>\n<p>He has always denied any wrongdoing, but has not directly responded to the latest allegations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our Standards: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.com\/about-us\/our-editorial-charter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The GB News Editorial Charter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">The GB News Editorial Charter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Royal Family has shared a post on social media celebrating Easter Sunday, following Buckingham Palace&#8217;s announcement earlier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7708],"tags":[2633,3751,247869,22813,15277,1760,5105,7710,519,448,182,39053,8688,247870],"class_list":["post-873442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-royals","tag-buckingham-palace","tag-easter","tag-easter-message","tag-happy-easter","tag-king","tag-king-charles","tag-royal","tag-royal-families","tag-royal-family","tag-royals","tag-social-media","tag-the-king","tag-the-royal-family","tag-written-message"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116351466862450417","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873442","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=873442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}