{"id":375479,"date":"2026-10-17T06:14:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T06:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375479\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T06:14:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T06:14:20","slug":"queen-camilla-wears-a-meaningful-brooch-from-queen-elizabeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375479\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Camilla Wears a Meaningful Brooch from Queen Elizabeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leek is the national symbol of Wales, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historic-uk.com\/HistoryUK\/HistoryofWales\/The-Leek-National-emblem-of-the-Welsh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Shakespeare even nodding to the ancient custom<\/a> when Henry V says, wearing a leek, \u201cfor I am Welsh, you know, good countryman.\u201d The leek is found throughout Welsh lore, including in battle\u201414th-century soldiers adopted green and white uniforms, and a key fight against Saxon invaders supposedly took place in a leek field. <\/p>\n<p>Per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/news\/camilla-brooch-leek-gift-queen-25035846\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Wales Online<\/a>, Queen Elizabeth II likely passed the brooch to King Charles when, as Prince of Wales, he succeeded his father, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purewow.com\/news\/prince-philip-will\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Prince Philip<\/a>, as Colonel of the Welsh Guards in 1975. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purewow.com\/news\/charles-spencer-reveals-princess-diana-life-without-king-charles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Princess Diana<\/a> was also seen wearing the brooch; it is now a favorite of Queen Camilla for Welsh events. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The leek is the national symbol of Wales, with Shakespeare even nodding to the ancient custom when Henry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-375479","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\/375479","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=375479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}