{"id":2316087,"date":"2026-03-06T19:32:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2316087"},"modified":"2026-03-06T19:32:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:32:41","slug":"andrew-mountbatten-windsor-to-keep-city-of-london-freedom-honour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/andrew-mountbatten-windsor-to-keep-city-of-london-freedom-honour\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to keep City of London Freedom honour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Freedom, which allows its recipients to walk sheep over London Bridge, is typically awarded to individuals nominated by corporation councillors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mountbatten-Windsor inherited the status as the child of a Freeman and constitutes a legal right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The corporation said: &#8220;Applications via patrimony are not considered by our elected members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have carefully considered whether it is possible to remove a Freedom granted by patrimony and understand that we are not able to do so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Though today largely a ceremonial honour the Freedom is still awarded to individuals on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sir Lenny Henry and Cate Blanchett are among those to have received the honour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.bbc.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Freedom, which allows its recipients to walk sheep over London Bridge, is typically awarded to individuals nominated by corporation councillors. Mountbatten-Windsor inherited the status as the child of a Freeman and constitutes a legal right. The corporation said: &#8220;Applications via patrimony are not considered by our elected members. &#8220;We have carefully considered whether it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2316088,"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":[],"class_list":["post-2316087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Andrew-Mountbatten-Windsor-to-keep-City-of-London-Freedom-honour.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316087","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=2316087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2316089,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316087\/revisions\/2316089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2316088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2316087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2316087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2316087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}