{"id":7857,"date":"2022-09-16T22:27:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T16:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=7857"},"modified":"2022-09-16T22:27:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T16:27:26","slug":"president-zelenskys-wife-to-represent-ukraine-at-queens-funeral-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/photonews\/2022\/09\/16\/news\/7857\/","title":{"rendered":"President Zelensky\u2019s wife to represent Ukraine at Queen\u2019s funeral: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7858\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7858\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7858\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/wife-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7858\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olena Zelenska will be joining some 500 heads of state and foreign dignitaries at the state funeral at Westminster Abbey on Monday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LONDON, Broadcasting News Corporation : Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s wife will represent her country at Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s funeral on Monday, according to a report. Olena Zelenska is expected to joining some 500 heads of state and foreign dignitaries at the service at Westminster Abbey in London, including President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macros and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, The Sun reported. President Zelensky, who has not left Ukraine since the start of the war with Russia on Feb. 24, won\u2019t be accompanying his wife. \u201cBritain is one of Ukraine\u2019s staunchest allies. (Zelenka\u2019s) presence at the funeral is a sign of that friendship and mutual respect,\u201d an unnamed source told The Sun. Zelenska, 44, is expected return home immediately after the funeral. King Charles III will host a reception for overseas dignitaries at Buckingham Palace on Sunday, the evening before his mother\u2019s state funeral. It will be attended by Britain\u2019s political elite, including new Prime Minister Liz Truss. It won\u2019t be Zelenska\u2019s first time at the monarch\u2019s imposing London residence: in 2020, Ukraine\u2019s president and first lady met with Prince William and his wife, Catherine, during an audience at Buckingham Palace while on a two-day official visit to the UK. Russia, its ally Belarus, and Myanmar have not received invitations to the Queen\u2019s funeral, Whitehall sources said. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov previously said that President Vladimir Putin won\u2019t be attending the Queen\u2019s funeral. Zelenska has made several trips outside Ukraine in recent months to rally support for her country\u2019s war effort, including by delivering a fiery speech before the US Congress in July. On Wednesday, Zelenska was the guest of honor of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as she delivered a state of the union speech in Strasbourg. 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Olena Zelenska is expected to joining some 500 heads of state and foreign dignitaries at the service at Westminster Abbey in London, including President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macros &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photonews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7859,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857\/revisions\/7859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}