{"id":109307,"date":"2022-09-11T14:55:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T14:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/accession-proclamation-read-to-people-of-northern-ireland-at-hillsborough-castle"},"modified":"2022-09-11T14:55:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T14:55:24","slug":"accession-proclamation-read-to-people-of-northern-ireland-at-hillsborough-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/accession-proclamation-read-to-people-of-northern-ireland-at-hillsborough-castle","title":{"rendered":"Accession proclamation read to people of Northern Ireland at Hillsborough Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The proclamation of the new King has been read to the people of Northern Ireland at Hillsborough Castle. The Norroy and Ulster King of Arms Robert Noel formally declared the accession of Charles III to the throne following the Queen&#8217;s death. Amid heavy rain, around 200 invited guests were inside the castle grounds, while hundreds more watched from under umbrellas outside the main gates. Hillsborough Castle is the royal family&#8217;s official residence in Northern Ireland, and the Co Down village was recently honoured with a &#8216;Royal&#8217; prefix in recognition of its long-standing regal links. The ceremony began with the Royal Irish Regiment (RIR) band leading a procession of a Proclamation Guard from the 2nd Battalion of the RIR and representatives of Lisburn and Castlereagh Council to the front of the castle. Prior to the proclamation, a 40-second fanfare was sounded by a bugler. A bell in the clock tower of the castle&#8217;s Court House chimed once at 12pm to signal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proclamation of the new King has been read to the people of Northern Ireland at Hillsborough Castle.The Norroy and Ulster King of Arms Robert Noel formally declared the accession<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,101],"tags":[314,42,100,102],"class_list":["post-109307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-army","tag-politics","tag-royals","tag-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}