{"id":194261,"date":"2026-04-12T11:03:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T11:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/194261\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T11:03:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T11:03:24","slug":"hm-the-queens-father-has-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/194261\/","title":{"rendered":"HM The Queen\u2019s Father Has Passed Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great sorrow that Her Majesty, The Queen announces that her father, Professor John Dalgleish Donaldson, has died in Hobart, Tasmania. He was 84 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A statement by The Queen:<\/p>\n<p>\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>Professor John Donaldson&#8217;s health has been declining over the past few years. 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Messages of condolence can be sent via Kongehuset.dk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is with great sorrow that Her Majesty, The Queen announces that her father, Professor John Dalgleish Donaldson,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-194261","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\/194261","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=194261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}