{"id":692023,"date":"2026-07-14T23:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T23:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/692023\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T23:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T23:58:12","slug":"king-delights-crowds-on-first-isle-of-man-visit-as-monarch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/692023\/","title":{"rendered":"King delights crowds on first Isle of Man visit as monarch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The King said he had &#8220;countless fond memories&#8221; of presiding over the open-air Tynwald ceremony in St John&#8217;s during during a previous visit, but it was &#8220;even more significant to be here now, in Tynwald Court, as Lord of Mann, addressing you all personally, for first time&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The King said he was proud of his family tradition of Royal visits to the island and praised the history of Tynwald.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As the world&#8217;s oldest parliament in continuous operation, Tynwald holds a remarkable distinction,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This longevity speaks not only to the strength of your institutions, but also to the enduring partnership between the Crown and the people of this island.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The King said he had &#8220;countless fond memories&#8221; of presiding over the open-air Tynwald ceremony in St John&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-692023","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\/692023","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=692023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}