{"id":127298,"date":"2024-09-14T14:44:32","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T21:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=127298"},"modified":"2024-09-14T14:44:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T21:44:32","slug":"king-charles-iii-surprises-with-a-touching-gesture-towards-a-female-rugby-team-in-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/king-charles-iii-surprises-with-a-touching-gesture-towards-a-female-rugby-team-in-public\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles III surprises with a touching gesture towards a female rugby team in public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a reception at Buckingham Palace, <strong>King Charles III<\/strong> surprises with a touching gesture towards a New Zealand female <strong>rugby team<\/strong> in public that was in England for a match against the local Red Roses.<\/p>\n<p>In the event at the palace, the New Zealand player, <strong>Winger Ayesha Leti-I&#8217;iga<\/strong>, of the Black Ferns team, made an unusual request to give the monarch a hug, to which he responded, &#8220;<em><strong>A hug, why not?<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; surprising all those present who immediately turned to witness the moment.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as they heard the monarch&#8217;s answer, the New Zealand players approached to surround King Charles III in a big group hug that, according to the royal himself, was &#8220;<em><strong>very healing<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;. This made the <strong>Black Ferns<\/strong> team very emotional, since they had made the monarch feel happy.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HelloCanada\/status\/1834973630599774486\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The ladies from New Zealand\u2019s national rugby union team, the Black Ferns, asked King Charles for a hug &amp; he complied!  \ud83c\udfa5: Black Ferns <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s2SuQ5xG5K\">pic.twitter.com\/s2SuQ5xG5K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; HELLO! Canada (@HelloCanada) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HelloCanada\/status\/1834973630599774486?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In a sort of impromptu speech, the king let the Black Ferns know that their visit to the palace was gratifying for him: &#8220;<em><strong>I much appreciated this chance to meet you and have such a warm hug from most of you<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; and added, &#8220;<em><strong>I&#8217;m extremely sorry I can&#8217;t come to New Zealand in later October because of doctor&#8217;s orders<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a reception at Buckingham Palace, King Charles III surprises with a touching gesture towards a New Zealand female rugby team in public that was in England for a match against the local Red Roses. In the event at the palace, the New Zealand player, Winger Ayesha Leti-I&#8217;iga, of the Black Ferns team, made an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":127342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,1795],"tags":[1881],"class_list":{"0":"post-127298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-royal-family","9":"tag-king-charles-iii"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}