{"id":267717,"date":"2024-06-22T13:06:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T05:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=267717"},"modified":"2024-06-22T13:06:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T05:06:03","slug":"japanese-royals-arrive-for-three-day-state-visit-to-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=267717","title":{"rendered":"Japanese royals arrive for three-day state visit to UK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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LONDON, June 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako arrive in Britain on Saturday ahead of a three-day state visit hosted by King Charles III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The royal couple are due to touch down on a flight from Japan and spend Sunday and Monday at private engagements before the official programme begins on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The highlight will be a state banquet at Buckingham Palace, with all eyes on a possible appearance by heir to the throne Prince William’s wife Catherine, rarely seen in recent months due to cancer treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naruhito, 64, will also go to Windsor Castle west of London to lay a wreath on the tomb of Queen Elizabeth II, whose state funeral he and the empress, 60, attended in September 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Britain in the midst of a general election campaign, it was not immediately clear if there would be any meeting with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visiting heads of state have typically held talks with the premier and opposition leader, or addressed lawmakers in parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there are no MPs as parliament has been dissolved before the July 4 vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trip will be the emperor’s second official state visit since his accession to the throne in 2019, following a visit to Indonesia last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Charles, 75, it will be the third state visit he has hosted since he ascended to the throne following the death of his mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking in Tokyo ahead of the trip, Naruhito said Britain’s royals treated him “like family” during his time studying in England in the 1980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naruhito recalled that during his two years at Oxford University, he was invited to Balmoral Castle in Scotland for a few days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I have very fond memories of the queen driving a car and inviting me to a barbecue… and Prince Philip showing me around by driving a carriage himself,” he told reporters in a rare press conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The state visit’s programme will also include a Guard of Honour ceremony, a carriage procession at Buckingham Palace, visits to museums and to the Francis Crick Institute, a biomedical research centre in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before leaving on Friday the Japanese emperor and empress will visit Oxford, where they both studied, for private engagements. — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LONDON, June 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako arrive in Britain on Saturday ahead of a three-day state visit hosted by King Charles III. The royal couple are due to touch down on a flight from Japan and spend Sunday and Monday at private engagements before the official programme begins on Tuesday. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":267718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267717"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267719,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267717\/revisions\/267719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/267718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}