{"id":172937,"date":"2026-08-02T10:06:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=172937"},"modified":"2026-08-02T10:06:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:06:54","slug":"king-charles-iii-honours-the-late-queen-elizabeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/king-charles-iii-honours-the-late-queen-elizabeth\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles III honours the late Queen Elizabeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>King Charles III<\/strong> has just made a beautiful tribute and honored a royal tradition as he attended the annual Mey Highland Games in Caithness, Scotland. The King is continuing a role first established by his beloved grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.<\/p>\n<p>The Monarch of the United Kingdom watched a series of traditional Highland competitions, including tug of war and the iconic caber toss, while wearing his iconic Scottish kilt. <strong>The King not only enjoyed the performances but also participated in a dram of whisky while greeting competitors, event organizers and veterans<\/strong> from the Wounded Highlanders participating in adaptive sporting events.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">King Charles III greets guests at the 2026 Mey Highland Games at John O&#39;Groats Showground in John O&#39;Groats, Scotland.<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/GettyVideo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GettyVideo<\/a> \ud83c\udfa5 Martin Grimes \ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZIGLC8zIAI\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZIGLC8zIAI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WdC3alRCEj\">pic.twitter.com\/WdC3alRCEj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Getty Images Entertainment (@GettyVIP) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GettyVIP\/status\/2083791647457104269?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 2, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Despite the event being founded in 1970 to celebrate the Queen Mother\u2019s 70th birthday, it also became part of the<strong> tradition<\/strong> of the Scottish people and even became part of Scotland\u2019s summer calendar. Once again, the King has showcased his longstanding connection to both the event and the nearby Castle of Mey. The King is expected to spend so much time in August at Balmoral, which might be the perfect opportunity to connect with the people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Charles III has just made a beautiful tribute and honored a royal tradition as he attended the annual Mey Highland Games in Caithness, Scotland. The King is continuing a role first established by his beloved grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. The Monarch of the United Kingdom watched a series of traditional Highland competitions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":172941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2264,1795],"tags":[1881],"class_list":["post-172937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-entertainment","category-royal-family","tag-king-charles-iii"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172937","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\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172944,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172937\/revisions\/172944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}