{"id":2319921,"date":"2026-03-09T16:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2319921"},"modified":"2026-03-09T16:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:36:09","slug":"king-hails-commonwealth-at-biggest-royal-gathering-since-andrew-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/king-hails-commonwealth-at-biggest-royal-gathering-since-andrew-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"King hails Commonwealth at biggest royal gathering since Andrew arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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King Charles has said the Commonwealth can be a force for unity in a “fragmented world” in a message at the annual Commonwealth Day service in London.<\/b><\/p>\n

The King and Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales, and Princess Anne attended the event at Westminster Abbey, which was the biggest gathering of senior royals since the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor last month.<\/p>\n

Anti-monarchy campaigners, Republic, staged a protest near the Abbey with placards reading “What did you know?”, in reference to former prince Mountbatten-Windsor’s links to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n

More than 1,800 guests attended the service, which featured readings, prayers, music and dance, from celebrities including former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell-Horner and Strictly Come Dancing’s Oti Mabuse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.bbc.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

King Charles has said the Commonwealth can be a force for unity in a “fragmented world” in a message at the annual Commonwealth Day service in London. The King and Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales, and Princess Anne attended the event at Westminster Abbey, which was the biggest gathering of senior royals since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2319922,"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-2319921","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\/King-hails-Commonwealth-at-biggest-royal-gathering-since-Andrew-arrest.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319921","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=2319921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2319923,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319921\/revisions\/2319923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2319922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2319921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2319921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2319921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}