{"id":11704,"date":"2013-06-14T02:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/the-duchess-of-cambridge-names-royal-princess-2\/"},"modified":"2013-06-14T02:15:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T02:15:00","slug":"the-duchess-of-cambridge-names-royal-princess-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/06\/the-duchess-of-cambridge-names-royal-princess-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Duchess of Cambridge Names Royal Princess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-TBK50vTMI3M\/Ubp8rcgPITI\/AAAAAAAAgFI\/c5ZfS1Xe530\/s1600\/Duchess%2Bof%2BCambridge%2BNames%2BRoyal%2BPrincess%2Bemail-709045.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-TBK50vTMI3M\/Ubp8rcgPITI\/AAAAAAAAgFI\/c5ZfS1Xe530\/s320\/Duchess%2Bof%2BCambridge%2BNames%2BRoyal%2BPrincess%2Bemail-709045.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a spectacular ceremony in Southampton yesterday, Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge named the new ship Royal Princess when she released a bottle of champagne that smashed against its hull.<\/p>\n<p>Standing on the naming platform with the ship&#8217;s Captain Tony Draper, The Duchess pronounced, &#8220;I name this ship Royal Princess. May God bless her and all who sail in her.&#8221;  She then cut the rope that sent a giant Nebuchadnezzar-size bottle of Mo\u00ebt &#038; Chandon champagne toward the ship, officially welcoming Royal Princess into the fleet of Princess Cruises, one of the world&#8217;s largest international cruise lines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can think of no more fitting godmother for our magnificent new Royal Princess,&#8221; Princess Cruises President and CEO Alan Buckelew said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Her Royal Highness is an inspiring ambassador for Britain &#8211; with whom Princess Cruises shares strong ties \u2013 and she is admired around the world for her style and grace. We&#8217;re so honoured she accepted our invitation to become godmother to our new ship.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a spectacular ceremony in Southampton yesterday, Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge named the new ship Royal Princess when she released a bottle of champagne that smashed against its hull. Standing on the naming platform with the ship&#8217;s Captain Tony Draper, The Duchess pronounced, &#8220;I name this ship Royal Princess. May God bless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}