{"id":93907,"date":"2025-05-11T23:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T23:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/93907\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T23:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T23:30:09","slug":"wales-leader-meets-the-duchess-of-edinburgh-at-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/93907\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales leader meets The Duchess of Edinburgh at event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Mothers&#8217; Union (MU) leader met The Duchess of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace, representing the organisation.<\/p>\n<p>Welsh provincial president Sue Rivers was invited to the palace&#8217;s garden party, hosted by The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, to honour individuals and organisations for their contributions to communities.<\/p>\n<p>During the event, Ms Rivers spent time with The Duchess of Edinburgh, the recently announced royal patron of the Mothers&#8217; Union, where she discussed the joy and appreciation for the Duchess&#8217; new role.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion also included Ms Rivers&#8217; work with initiatives such as Away From It All (AFIA) and the domestic abuse campaign in Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Rivers said: &#8220;It was a delight to meet HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She showed great interest in my work as a member and my long-standing commitment to the organisation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With 45 years of dedication to Mothers&#8217; Union, Ms Rivers&#8217; has spearheaded key initiatives, like the &#8216;Behind Closed Doors&#8217; exhibition to raise domestic abuse awareness, and the church guide to addressing domestic abuse, thus emphasising her leadership abilities and initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Mothers&#8217; Union (MU) leader met The Duchess of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace, representing the organisation. Welsh provincial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,2633,44203,5106,1102,4884,44201,44204,712,44202,31161,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-93907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-buckingham-palace","10":"tag-domestic-abuse","11":"tag-duchess-of-edinburgh","12":"tag-edinburgh","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-mothers-union","15":"tag-ms-rivers","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-sue-rivers","18":"tag-the-duchess","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114491806463443789","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93907","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=93907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}