{"id":670281,"date":"2026-07-02T18:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T18:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/670281\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T18:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T18:42:12","slug":"king-charles-takes-part-in-historic-jedburgh-hand-ba-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/670281\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles takes part in historic Jedburgh hand ba&#8217; game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Proceedings start in Jedburgh with the ribboned ball being thrown into a ruck of the two teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One team, the Uppies, try to take the ball towards the town&#8217;s castle while the Doonies attempt to carry it towards the Jedwater.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Charlie Young, president of the Jethart Callants Club, explained to the King the history of the lawless sport during the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;King Charles got a bit of a shock when the play swung in his direction and a few of the security guys had to come a bit closer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But what an honour for us to have the King put the ball up and into play.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Proceedings start in Jedburgh with the ribboned ball being thrown into a ruck of the two teams. One&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-670281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670281","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=670281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}