{"id":21046,"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-3\/"},"modified":"2013-06-14T02:15:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T02:15:00","slug":"the-duchess-of-cambridge-names-royal-princess-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/06\/the-duchess-of-cambridge-names-royal-princess-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Duchess of Cambridge Names Royal Princess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-8HuK87eGV7s\/Ubp8rTBc7AI\/AAAAAAAAgFM\/K-3eNZb-Wxw\/s1600\/Duchess%2Bof%2BCambridge%2BNames%2BRoyal%2BPrincess%2Bemail-709027.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-8HuK87eGV7s\/Ubp8rTBc7AI\/AAAAAAAAgFM\/K-3eNZb-Wxw\/s320\/Duchess%2Bof%2BCambridge%2BNames%2BRoyal%2BPrincess%2Bemail-709027.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5889156546022927362\" \/><\/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 &amp; 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-21046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21046","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=21046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}