{"id":9538,"date":"2022-09-12T02:04:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T02:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/09\/12\/queen-elizabeth-ii-her-blessing-helped-devolution-in-wales\/"},"modified":"2022-09-12T02:04:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T02:04:24","slug":"queen-elizabeth-ii-her-blessing-helped-devolution-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=9538","title":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth II: Her blessing helped devolution in Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">&#8220;It is a moment of renewal true to the spirit of Wales.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">That is how Queen Elizabeth described devolution in a speech at the opening of the Welsh Assembly in 1999.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">&#8220;From the very beginning the Queen was here to give her royal blessing to the institution,&#8221; said Lord Elis-Thomas, a former Plaid Cymru leader who was made the presiding officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Lord Elis-Thomas said her presence at six more opening ceremonies of the Senedd was &#8220;crucial to the success of the enterprise&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-62872438?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] &#8220;It is a moment of renewal true to the spirit of Wales.&#8221; That is how Queen Elizabeth described devolution in a speech at the opening of the Welsh Assembly &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}