{"id":2245981,"date":"2026-01-22T19:12:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2245981"},"modified":"2026-01-22T19:12:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:12:46","slug":"prince-of-wales-to-make-first-visit-to-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/prince-of-wales-to-make-first-visit-to-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince of Wales to make first visit to Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Saudi Arabia has also faced accusations of \u201csportswashing\u201d<\/a> \u2013 investing in sporting events such as the football World Cup, which it will host in 2034, to distract from alleged wrongdoing and to present a favourable image.<\/p>\n

Sir Keir\u2019s government has strengthened ties with the Saudis, including through recent visits by the Chancellor and the Foreign Secretary.<\/p>\n

Prince William\u2019s tour to the country will be his first official overseas visit of 2026 and his first to the Middle East since his 2023 trip to Kuwait to pay his condolences following the death of Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah<\/a>, its former ruling emir.<\/p>\n

During a 2022 visit to the United Arab Emirates, Prince William voiced his concerns about global warming at the rescheduled Dubai Expo 2020, warning that \u201cchange is not happening fast enough or at the scale we need\u201d.<\/p>\n

More recently, the future king made a five-day visit to Brazil in November to stage his Earthshot Prize<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Prince of Wales has also visited Oman in 2019.<\/p>\n<\/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.telegraph.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saudi Arabia has also faced accusations of \u201csportswashing\u201d \u2013 investing in sporting events such as the football World Cup, which it will host in 2034, to distract from alleged wrongdoing and to present a favourable image. Sir Keir\u2019s government has strengthened ties with the Saudis, including through recent visits by the Chancellor and the Foreign […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2245982,"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":[21738,23068,22769,365927,344742,24515,356051,382398],"class_list":["post-2245981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-news","tag-prince-william","tag-royal-family","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-standard","tag-the-royal-family","tag-uk-news","tag-us-content"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Prince-of-Wales-to-make-first-visit-to-Saudi-Arabia.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245981","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=2245981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2245983,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245981\/revisions\/2245983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2245982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2245981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2245981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2245981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}