Temple<\/a>! Earlier today, The King and Queen visited Europe\u2019s first traditional Hindu stone temple,\u201d read the X post shared on the official profile \u201cThe Royal Family.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cDuring today\u2019s engagement, Their Majesties met worshippers and representatives from community and social impact initiatives supported by the Temple, including The Felix Project and Women of the World (WoW),\u201d the post read. The pictures show King Charles III and Queen Camilla walking around and attending an event inside the temple.<\/p>\n
Priests dressed in orange robes welcomed the royal couple at the temple with garlands of roses and carnations, and sacred threads called “nada chadi” were tied around the wrists of the British royals.<\/p>\n
How did social media react?<\/h2>\n
The royal couple\u2019s visit to the Hindu temple sparked mixed reactions on X. While some celebrated the visit, others slammed the king and the queen for visiting a place of a different faith, adding that King Charles III should visit a church instead.<\/p>\n
An individual posted, \u201cWhat a beautiful milestone! 30 years of Neasden Temple \u2014 a true symbol of peace, faith, and togetherness. Lovely to see Their Majesties honouring this occasion!\u201d Another individual mocked, \u201cGreat job, defender of the faith.\u201d King Charles took the title of \u201cdefender of the faith\u201d following the tradition that his predecessors had observed for almost 500 years.<\/p>\n
A third posted, \u201cCongratulations to Neasden Temple on this incredible milestone! Wishing continued success!\u201d A fourth wrote, \u201cA hard shift?\u201d<\/p>\n
This marks King Charles’s fourth visit to the temple. He visited the place in 2009 with his wife, when he was the Prince of Wales, and he had also made solo trips to the temple twice, in 2001 and 1996.<\/p>\n
BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir is constructed \u201centirely according to ancient Vedic architectural texts\u201d and without using any \u201cstructural steel,\u201d according to the temple\u2019s official website. The temple is covered in ornately carved stone. It is popularly known as the Neasden Temple.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.hindustantimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King Charles III was photographed visiting the landmark BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in west London to mark its 30th anniversary. He visited the iconic temple with his wife, Queen Camilla. An X profile dedicated to the king and queen shared the pictures. King Charles and Queen Camilla at the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in London. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2123859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[24083,348939,403366,183315,35580],"class_list":["post-2123858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-british-royals","tag-camilla","tag-hindu-temple","tag-king-charles","tag-viral"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/King-Charles-Camilla-visit-\u2018Europes-first-traditional-Hindu-stone-temple.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2123858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2123860,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123858\/revisions\/2123860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2123859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}