{"id":6083,"date":"2021-04-09T18:58:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T18:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.melodiansuk.co.uk\/?p=6083"},"modified":"2021-04-09T18:58:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T18:58:25","slug":"the-duke-of-edinburgh-died-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melodiansuk.co.uk\/?p=6083","title":{"rendered":"The Duke of Edinburgh died today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We are all sad to hear that Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh, died today. Our thoughts are with Her Majesty The Queen and the rest of the Royal Family for their loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have played for the Royal Family at many events over the past 33 years and met the Duke of Edinburgh on many occasions. Each occasion stays in your memory forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I include a photo taken in Westminster Abbey, at the most recent event where we played for the Duke of Edinburgh. As you can see he was very interested in the logo on Terry Noel’s Polo Shirt and Terry had to explain it is the Melodians Steel Orchestra’s logo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Duke of Edinburgh wants to know whose logo is on Terry Noel’s Polo Shirt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Melodians played outside Westminster Abbey as the guests arrived for the Commonwealth Day service in 2016
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We are all sad to hear that Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh, died today. Our thoughts are with Her Majesty The Queen and the rest of the Royal Family for their loss. We have played for the Royal Family at many events over the past 33 years and met the Duke of Edinburgh on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[78,84,17,83,60,80],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Xd1v-1A7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melodiansuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melodiansuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melodiansuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melodiansuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melodiansuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.melodiansuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6088,"href":"https:\/\/www.melodiansuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6083\/revisions\/6088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melodiansuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melodiansuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melodiansuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}