{"id":353068,"date":"2026-09-22T02:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T02:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353068\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T02:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T02:29:11","slug":"pearly-kings-and-queens-bring-londons-cockney-tradition-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353068\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearly Kings and Queens bring London\u2019s Cockney tradition to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">London&#8217;s Pearly Kings and Queens gathered at Guildhall Yard for their annual Harvest Festival, celebrating a street tradition that dates back around 150 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Pearlies wore elaborate outfits covered with thousands of hand-sewn buttons and pearls, while singing traditional songs and raising money for charity. Some outfits feature between 2,000 and 3,000 buttons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The event also showcased Cockney backslang and rhyming slang, including a performance by 13-year-old Conor Cranston-Scott, the Pearly Prince of Highgate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London&#8217;s Pearly Kings and Queens gathered at Guildhall Yard for their annual Harvest Festival, celebrating a street tradition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[131702,17246,9,24,63,131701,122,124,123,131704,131703],"class_list":["post-353068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-guildhall-yard","tag-harvest-festival","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-pearly-kings-and-queens","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-raising-money-for-charity","tag-traditional-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353068","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=353068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}