{"id":3557,"date":"2010-05-23T11:29:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T17:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=3557"},"modified":"2010-05-23T11:29:46","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T17:29:46","slug":"queen-elizabeth-ii-marks-westminster-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/23\/queen-elizabeth-ii-marks-westminster-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth II marks Westminster anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Westminster Abbey website:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>HM The Queen, Visitor of the College of St Peter in Westminster, and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh attended a Service on Friday 21 May 2010 to Celebrate the 450th Anniversary of the Collegiate Foundation of St Peter in Westminster Abbey.<\/p>\n<p>The Charter granted by Queen Elizabeth I on 21 May 1560 re-founded the former Benedictine monastery at Westminster as the Collegiate Church of St Peter under the governance of a Dean and Chapter and as a Royal Peculiar, that is not subject to bishop or archbishop but directly answerable to The Sovereign.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.westminster-abbey.org\/press\/news\/news\/2010\/may\/queen-joins-abbey-for-elizabethan-celebration\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Queen also unveiled a statue of Queen Elizabeth I at Westminster School, which you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-16629-British-Royal-Family-Examiner~y2010m5d22-Queen-Elizabeth-II-unveils-Queen-Elizabeth-I-at-Westminster-Abbey\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">see photos of here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Westminster Abbey website: HM The Queen, Visitor of the College of St Peter in Westminster, and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh attended a Service on Friday 21 May 2010 to Celebrate the 450th Anniversary of the Collegiate Foundation of St Peter in Westminster Abbey. The Charter granted by&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/23\/queen-elizabeth-ii-marks-westminster-anniversary\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tudor-history-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}