{"id":143742,"date":"2026-02-24T13:47:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/143742\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T13:47:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:47:28","slug":"king-charles-presents-queen-elizabeth-prizes-for-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/143742\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles presents Queen Elizabeth prizes for higher education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/652679_4382151_updates.jpg\" alt=\"King Charles presents Queen Elizabeth prizes for higher education\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>King Charles presents Queen Elizabeth prizes for higher education<\/p>\n<p>King Charles led the largest gathering of senior royals at St James\u2019s Palace on Tuesday, since the arrest of his younger brother, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His Majesty was joined by Queen Camilla, Princess Anne, and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester for the prestigious presentation of The Queen Elizabeth Prizes for Higher and Further Education.<\/p>\n<p>Charles appeared focused and measured, the Queen composed and attentive as she greeted guests and recipients.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Edward had been expected to attend but withdrew at the last minute after coming down with a cold.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s awards celebrated 19 universities and colleges for their innovative work and excellence across a range of disciplines.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One by one, award winners were recognised for their contributions to education, a cause long championed by the late Queen Elizabeth II and now carried forward by the current monarch.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights included a centre advancing sustainability in the textile industry, a partnership providing higher education within prisons, and pioneering research into Paralympic performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King Charles presents Queen Elizabeth prizes for higher education King Charles led the largest gathering of senior royals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-143742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}