{"id":1524,"date":"2014-09-20T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2023-08-29T22:14:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T12:14:34","slug":"british-royal-visit-to-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1524","title":{"rendered":"British Royal Visit to Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While\u00a0the Scottish\u00a0were absorbing the results of their referendum, Prince William was on his way to Malta to represent the Queen of Australia\u00a0at the 50th anniversary of\u00a0independence and formation of the Republic.\u00a0President Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, said, &#8220;We respect the British Royal family. We consider the British people as our friends, not simply our ex-colonisers. We consider the royal family as friends of Malta&#8221;.\u00a0In Malta&#8217;s case, there are many, many ex-colonisers over the centuries, the British\u00a0having been only the most recent although\u00a0instrumental in the defence of the country in WWII.\u00a0Malta is also a much smaller and less prosperous\u00a0nation than Scotland. The crowds were reported to be &#8220;thin&#8221; with many more British than Maltese present.\u00a0Those out for the walkabouts were apparently\u00a0disappointed to be seeing William rather than Kate or George.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While\u00a0the Scottish\u00a0were absorbing the results of their referendum, Prince William was on his way to Malta to represent the Queen of Australia\u00a0at the 50th anniversary of\u00a0independence and formation of the Republic.\u00a0President Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, said, &#8220;We respect the British&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","wpcat-18-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1525,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}