{"id":194157,"date":"2026-04-12T08:06:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/194157\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T08:06:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:06:30","slug":"royal-family-announces-death-of-queens-beloved-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/194157\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal family announces death of Queen&#8217;s beloved father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1398616_123523_updates.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"686\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Royal family announces death of Queen's beloved father\"\/>Donaldson could spend time with the Queen during her recent visit<\/p>\n<p>Queen Mary of Denmark has announced that her &#8216;beloved&#8217; father, John Donaldson, has died aged 84.<\/p>\n<p>The Danish royals shared the announcement on its social media handle, saying \u201cThe Queen\u2019s Father has passed away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The announcement reads, \u201cIt is with great sorrow that the Queen announces that her father, Professor John Dalgleish Donaldson, has died in Hobart, Tasmania. He was 84 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement by the Queen says: \u201cMy heart is heavy, and my thoughts are grey. My beloved father has passed away. But I know that when the grief settles, the memories will brighten my day, and what will remain strongest is love and gratitude for everything he gave me and taught me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As per details, Professor John Donaldson\u2019s health had been declining over the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>The Queen last visited her father at the end of March, where they shared precious time together.<\/p>\n<p>John Donaldson was a Professor of Applied Mathematics, born in Scotland on September 5, 1941.<\/p>\n<p>The family will hold a private memorial service at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Fans and friends dropped heartbreaking messages after the palace confirmed the news with one saying, \u201cMy deepest condolences to you and your family. A blessing you could spend some more time with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is wonderful to think that Mr Donaldson could spend time with the Queen during her recent visit. A loss of a parent is losing part of your heritage. May he RIP,\u201d the other said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donaldson could spend time with the Queen during her recent visit Queen Mary of Denmark has announced that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-194157","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\/194157","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=194157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}