{"id":672881,"date":"2026-07-04T05:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T05:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/672881\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T05:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T05:12:09","slug":"in-pictures-royal-week-brings-king-and-queen-to-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/672881\/","title":{"rendered":"In pictures: Royal Week brings King and Queen to Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The King and Queen have led members of the Royal Family in the annual Royal Week in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Also known as Holyrood Week, the event takes place in the first week of July, celebrating Scottish culture, community and achievements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It began this year with King Charles III taking part in the Ceremony of the Keys at his official Scottish residence &#8211; the Palace of Holyroodhouse &#8211; and went on to include a formal ceremony at St Giles&#8217; Cathedral and garden party at Holyrood Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Royal couple then travelled to the Borders where they witnessed the traditional Jedburgh hand ba&#8217; game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The week ended with the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Edward, handing out the awards created by his late father Prince Philip, the previous Duke of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Recipients of this year&#8217;s Gold Award included the current Duke&#8217;s daughter, Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor, who earlier in the week graduated from the University of St Andrews. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The King and Queen have led members of the Royal Family in the annual Royal Week in Scotland.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-672881","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\/672881","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=672881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}