{"id":1289,"date":"2023-06-19T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2023-07-05T14:08:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T14:08:56","slug":"garter-day-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/garter-day-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Garter Day 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Most years Windsor Castle hosts the Garter Day Service where Knights and Ladies of the Most Noble Order of the Garter are joined by Royal (Extra) Knights, members of the Friends of St George&#8217;s and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter, and members of the public watch the precession and the following service in the chapel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul Borrow-Longain is a member of the Friends and has attended many Garter Days over the years.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Knights of the Garter gather at Windsor Castle, where new knights take the oath and are invested with the insignia. A lunch is given in the Waterloo Chamber, after which the knights process to a service in St George&#8217;s Chapel, wearing their blue velvet robes (with the badge of the Order &#8211; St George&#8217;s Cross within the Garter surrounded by radiating silver beams &#8211; on the left shoulder) and black velvet hats with white plumes. The King as Sovereign of the Order, attends the service along with other members of the Royal family in the Order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First a Chapter meeting is held in the throne room of the castle, at which The King invests new Companions with the Garter insignia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The King is accompanied by The Queen Consort, The Prince of Wales, The Princess Royal, the Duke of Gloucester and the Duke of Kent, with Knights Companions and officers of the Order.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Badge-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Badge-3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Badge-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Badge-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Badge-3-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most years Windsor Castle hosts the Garter Day Service where Knights and Ladies of the Most Noble Order of the Garter are joined by Royal (Extra) Knights, members of the Friends of St George&#8217;s and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter, and members of the public watch the precession and the following service in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}