{"id":540977,"date":"2026-07-23T22:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/540977\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T22:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:22:11","slug":"watch-king-charles-queen-camilla-arrive-at-comm-games-in-tardis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/540977\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: King Charles, Queen Camilla arrive at Comm Games in Tardis"},"content":{"rendered":"

King Charles and Queen Camilla have arrived at the Commonwealth Games in style \u2013 being welcomed by cheering crowds after stepping from Doctor Who\u2019s Tardis.<\/p>\n

The opening ceremony is being held at Glasgow\u2019s OVO Hydro stadium, and is celebrating the spirit of the city.<\/p>\n

The royal couple emerged from the Tardis shortly after Scottish Olympic and Commonwealth cycling great Sir Chris Hoy.<\/p>\n

\"King<\/p>\n

King Charles and Queen Camilla wave as Sir Chris Hoy looks on at The 2026 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony (Source: Photosport)<\/p>\n

The Tardis had earlier been on a journey around Scotland, as shown on the giant screens in the stadium, including a trip to Balmoral Castle to pick up the pair. <\/p>\n

Scottish actor Greg Hugh was also in the Tardis police box.<\/p>\n

\"David<\/p>\n

David Liti and Moira de Villiers lead th NZ Commonwealth Games team (Source: Photosport)<\/p>\n

The opening ceremony also featured Loch Ness, Edinburgh Castle, Glenfinnan Viaduct and the Highlands.<\/p>\n

The New Zealand team was led into the stadium by flagbearer David Liti (weightlifting) and baton holder Moira de Villiers (judo).<\/p>\n

The morning’s headlines in 90 seconds, including Ryan Fox arrives back in NZ, and the political heckle that\u2019s going viral. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King Charles and Queen Camilla have arrived at the Commonwealth Games in style \u2013 being welcomed by cheering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,166477,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-540977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-commonwealth-games","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540977","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=540977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}