{"id":251945,"date":"2025-11-08T21:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T21:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/251945\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T21:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T21:33:10","slug":"prince-george-joins-kate-king-and-queen-at-festival-of-remembrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/251945\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince George joins Kate, King and Queen at Festival of Remembrance"},"content":{"rendered":"

The event – which was broadcast on BBC One at 21:00 – was hosted by actress Hannah Waddingham and featured performances by musicians including Sir Rod Stewart and Sam Ryder.<\/p>\n

Several armed forces bands were also set to take to the stage to accompany the artists and perform military music, including the RAF Squadronaires.<\/p>\n

Veterans in attendance included some who had helped to plan D-Day – when Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, marking the start of the campaign to liberate north-west Europe during World War Two – and some who had been prisoners of war.<\/p>\n

Members of the LGBTQ+ veterans charity Fighting With Pride were also present, including former PO Alex Rasmussen from Bournemouth, who was made to leave the Royal Navy in 1996 after colleagues discovered his sexuality<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The King attended his first official engagement in support of the community in October, as he unveiled a memorial<\/a> to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender military personnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The event – which was broadcast on BBC One at 21:00 – was hosted by actress Hannah Waddingham…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-251945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}