{"id":26479,"date":"2025-09-16T20:48:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/26479\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T20:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:48:06","slug":"illness-keeps-queen-camilla-from-royal-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/26479\/","title":{"rendered":"Illness keeps Queen Camilla from royal funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Queen, 78, is scheduled to accompany the King for a busy programme of royal events during Trump\u2019s state visit on Wednesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n
The Prince and Princess of Wales, William and his wife Catherine, also joined the mourners at Westminster Cathedral.<\/p>\n
Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, and his ex-wife Sarah, the Duchess of York, were also seen in attendance.<\/p>\n
The Duchess of Kent, who died on September 5 at the age of 92, was known for her links to the Wimbledon tennis tournament and for anonymously teaching music at a primary school.<\/p>\n
Pallbearers from the Royal Dragoon Guards carry Katharine, Duchess of Kent’s coffin. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
A talented pianist, organist and singer, she was born Katharine Worsley into an aristocratic family in Yorkshire, northern England.<\/p>\n
In 1961, she married Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, who is a first cousin of the late Queen Elizabeth and remains, at 89, a working member of the royal family.<\/p>\n
Camilla is due to receive the Donald and Melania Trump alongside the King at Windsor Castle on Wednesday, around noon local time. <\/p>\n
– Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Queen, 78, is scheduled to accompany the King for a busy programme of royal events during Trump\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[21500,26528,17517,14801,26523,9861,6179,26526,156,2109,2688,71,26524,3192,26522,26527,9860,4754,4486,111,139,69,193,26525,3366,9855,1961,14578],"class_list":["post-26479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-attending","tag-bade","tag-because","tag-british","tag-camilla","tag-charles","tag-died","tag-duchess","tag-entertainment","tag-family","tag-farewell","tag-from","tag-funeral","tag-illness","tag-keeps","tag-kents","tag-king","tag-members","tag-month","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-other","tag-pulled","tag-queen","tag-royal","tag-this","tag-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}