{"id":943977,"date":"2026-05-07T14:34:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/943977\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T14:34:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:34:22","slug":"royal-family-live-king-charles-special-royal-first-prince-williams-rugby-tribute-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/943977\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Family LIVE: King Charles&#8217; special royal first, Prince William&#8217;s rugby tribute, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"ej2Du55NGH\">Last night, <a class=\"hm-link he-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hellomagazine.com\/tags\/duchess-sophie\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"article-body-link\">the Duchess of Edinburgh<\/a> was at One Marylebone in London for a Orbis eye care charity event. It was the company&#8217;s fourth annual Visionaries reception, and the royal was there partaking in a live demonstration of the charity\u2019s virtual reality training technology, developed in partnership with Fundamental XR. The experience demonstrated how simulation allows eye care professionals to practise sight-saving surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Sophie has travelled to Ethiopia, Bangladesh, and India to see the charities work in her role as Global Ambassador for the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness.<\/p>\n<p id=\"eWBxEypJ6Vl\">The Duchess said: &#8220;<strong>I have seen people dancing and praising God and in tears over a simple operation that will change their lives.<\/strong> I&#8217;ve travelled the world with Orbis and seen what they do on board the Flying Eye Hospital, but also the trainings they do virtually and in hospitals as well. It&#8217;s a wonderful trickle effect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4acf010ff587-234021b9-dea4-4627-a08a-3d076812877f.jpg\"   width=\"688\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"woman talking on stage\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" class=\"image he-image\"\/>Duchess Sophie speaking at the event<\/p>\n<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/13272b20265a-1950b696-ab84-4349-a1a5-41a76cfd6248.jpg\"   width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"blonde woman in orange dress\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" class=\"image he-image\"\/>Sophie is a huge advocate of eye health <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last night, the Duchess of Edinburgh was at One Marylebone in London for a Orbis eye care charity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[13080,5118,5105,7710,519,448,7796],"class_list":{"0":"post-943977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royals","9":"tag-princess-anne","10":"tag-royal","11":"tag-royal-families","12":"tag-royal-family","13":"tag-royals","14":"tag-royalty"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116533794178652183","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943977","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=943977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}