{"id":2490628,"date":"2026-07-06T18:47:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2490628"},"modified":"2026-07-06T18:47:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:47:20","slug":"commander-at-the-wheel-king-rides-in-tank-during-regiment-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/commander-at-the-wheel-king-rides-in-tank-during-regiment-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Commander at the wheel: King rides in tank during regiment visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-test=\"article-body-text\">\n<p>Earlier in the day, the King\u2019s son, the Duke of Sussex, was told he can no longer stay at Buckingham Palace during his forthcoming trip.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Minutes after the Duke\u2019s team announced he had accepted an offer to stay at the palace, a source indicated that he had waited too long to reply to the invitation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The decision to rescind the invitation to stay at Buckingham Palace was made in consultation with the King, it was understood.<\/p>\n<p>The King appeared miles away from the chaos as he enjoyed his tour of the RTR museum, his<strong> <\/strong>first trip to the <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/royal-family\/2023\/11\/09\/royal-regiment-reshuffle-a-guide-king-charles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">since taking over as Colonel-in-Chief<\/a> in August 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The monarch was greeted at the museum by former colonels-commandant, who serve as the ceremonial heads of the regiment.<\/p>\n<p>During the visit, he learnt about the history and significance of tanks from the First World War to the modern day.<\/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.telegraph.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in the day, the King\u2019s son, the Duke of Sussex, was told he can no longer stay at Buckingham Palace during his forthcoming trip.\u00a0 Minutes after the Duke\u2019s team announced he had accepted an offer to stay at the palace, a source indicated that he had waited too long to reply to the invitation.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2490629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[436931,490460,183049,398493,21738,22769,344742,24515,356051,382398],"class_list":["post-2490628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-british-army","tag-defence-industry","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-live-priority","tag-news","tag-royal-family","tag-standard","tag-the-royal-family","tag-uk-news","tag-us-content"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Commander-at-the-wheel-King-rides-in-tank-during-regiment.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490628","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=2490628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2490630,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490628\/revisions\/2490630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2490629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2490628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2490628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}