{"id":695421,"date":"2026-07-16T20:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/695421\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T20:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:19:17","slug":"jd-vance-says-caernarfon-castle-was-coolest-thing-ive-ever-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/695421\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance says Caernarfon castle was ‘coolest thing I’ve ever seen’"},"content":{"rendered":"

JD Vance was “blown away” by Caernarfon Castle during a visit with his wife to north Wales, the US Vice-President has revealed in a new book about his faith. <\/p>\n

“The coolest thing I’ve ever seen and it’s not particularly close,” Vance writes of his 2013 visit to the 13th Century castle – which is a UNESCO world heritage site – in an excerpt from his book published in The Sunday Times, external<\/a>. <\/p>\n

He and Usha Vance, who studied at Cambridge, were drawn to the site of King Charles’ investiture as Prince of Wales<\/a> in 1969, because he said it was a “a cool tourist stop”. <\/p>\n

His experiences there, and in the UK gave him a new perspective on life and marriage, he writes. <\/p>\n

Vance said he was most struck by the castle’s age compared to “old” buildings in the US. <\/p>\n

“Our house in Cincinnati was built about 150 years ago, and people call it historic,” he writes. <\/p>\n

“This castle, by contrast, was already hundreds of years old when English settlers first landed in the United States. <\/p>\n

“For nearly a millennium, young men had climbed the castle walls and watched the sun reflected on the surrounding water.”<\/p>\n

Before his trip to the castle, Vance said he had never experienced the feeling of being small in an “infinite” universe, he writes in Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith. <\/p>\n

“But here, on the banks of a river I’d never heard of, in a castle we selected as a cool tourist stop, I felt for the first time something similar: the scale of time, and how little of the life of the world we’d ever see.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JD Vance was “blown away” by Caernarfon Castle during a visit with his wife to north Wales, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-695421","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\/695421","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=695421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}