{"id":74376,"date":"2018-02-04T11:25:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T18:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=74376"},"modified":"2018-02-04T11:25:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T18:25:41","slug":"ministry-says-no-welcome-committee-of-british-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/02\/04\/ministry-says-no-welcome-committee-of-british-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry says no \u2018Welcome Committee of British Royals\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Foreign Affairs Ministry and the British High Commission today said\u00a0the document which is currently being circulated purporting to be a guide in \u2018royal etiquette\u2019 issued by a \u2018Welcome Committee of British Royals\u2019, was false.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint statement, the ministry and the High Commission said no such committee has been constituted by either.<\/p>\n<p>A document with the heading \u2018Welcome Committee\u00a0of British Royals\u2019 which stipulated 18 guidelines to be followed when welcoming the visiting Earl and Countess of Wessex, is being circulated in social media.<\/p>\n<p>The document has been signed by one D.F.P de Mel who is the supposed committee\u2019s secretary.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.dailymirror.lk\/media\/images\/image_1517566661-508e8531ba.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The document which is being circulated<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Foreign Affairs Ministry and the British High Commission today said\u00a0the document which is currently being circulated purporting to be a guide in \u2018royal etiquette\u2019 issued by a \u2018Welcome Committee of British Royals\u2019, was false. In a joint statement, the ministry and the High Commission said no such committee has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}