{"id":196021,"date":"2026-04-13T21:50:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196021\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T21:50:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:50:33","slug":"watch-complete-queen-azalea-coronation-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196021\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Complete Queen Azalea coronation ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"81\" data-end=\"272\">WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) \u2014 The Queen\u2019s Coronation, one of the North Carolina Azalea Festival\u2019s signature events, aired on WWAY and is available to watch in full in the video player above.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"274\" data-end=\"461\">The ceremony was held aboard the Battleship North Carolina, where actress Elaine Hendrix was crowned Queen Azalea as part of the annual tradition that helps kick off festival festivities.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"463\" data-end=\"627\">The event featured appearances from festival leadership, community members, celebrity guests and the Queen\u2019s Court.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"629\" data-end=\"777\">Following the coronation, Hendrix addressed the crowd, highlighting the significance of the festival and its connection to the Wilmington community.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"629\" data-end=\"777\">The full ceremony aired on WWAY and can be viewed in its entirety in the video player above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) \u2014 The Queen\u2019s Coronation, one of the North Carolina Azalea Festival\u2019s signature events, aired on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[61287,61516,9,24,63,61286,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-196021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-elaine-hendrix","9":"tag-nc-azalea-festival","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-queen-azalea","14":"tag-queens","15":"tag-queens-headlines","16":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196021","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=196021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}