{"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<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","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 May, the Daily Mail reported on Thursday. 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 [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"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}]}}