{"id":24318,"date":"2018-03-09T12:27:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T12:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=24318"},"modified":"2018-03-09T12:27:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T12:27:13","slug":"meghan-markle-baptised-ahead-of-royal-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/meghan-markle-baptised-ahead-of-royal-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle baptised ahead of royal wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US actress Meghan Markle has been baptised by the leader of the Church of England ahead of her marriage to Prince Harry in May, the Daily Mail reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby performed the 45-minute ceremony at London\u2019s Chapel Royal on Tuesday in the presence of Prince Charles, her future father-in-law, the paper said.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Harry\u2019s Kensington Palace office declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Markle, 36, is understood to have chosen to be baptised and confirmed into the Anglican church out of respect for Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s role as the head of the denomination.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony involved the \u201cSuits\u201d actress being doused with holy water from the River Jordan from the private royal family font, according to the Mail.<\/p>\n<p>The couple will wed on May 19 at St George\u2019s Chapel in Windsor Castle, a residence of Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s located west of London.<\/p>\n<p>Markle\u2019s father is an Episcopalian &#8212; an offshoot of the Anglican Church in the US &#8212; while her mother belonged to another Protestant denomination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US actress Meghan Markle has been baptised by the leader of the Church of England ahead of her marriage to Prince Harry in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24320,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24318\/revisions\/24320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}