{"id":29696,"date":"2021-03-12T23:01:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T14:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/mar\/12\/son-queens-former-aide-de-camp-sri-lanka-rallies-defence"},"modified":"2021-03-12T23:01:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T14:01:20","slug":"son-of-queens-former-aide-de-camp-in-sri-lanka-rallies-to-her-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29696","title":{"rendered":"Son of Queen&#8217;s former aide-de-camp in Sri Lanka rallies to her defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monarch had enduring friendship with Maj Gen Anton Muttukumaru, who worked for her in 1950s<\/p>\n<p>Maj Gen Anton Muttukumaru was a barrister, soldier and diplomat who loved collecting walking sticks. He was known for being charming and shrewd, had a talent for mimicry, and was once driven to Ascot to join the Queen because she was too busy enjoying the races to meet him at Buckingham Palace.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Muttukumaru was the Queen\u2019s aide-de-camp in 1954.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/mar\/12\/son-queens-former-aide-de-camp-sri-lanka-rallies-defence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monarch had enduring friendship with Maj Gen Anton Muttukumaru, who worked for her in 1950sMaj Gen Anton Muttukumaru was a barrister, soldier and diplomat who loved collecting walking sticks. He was known for being charming and shrewd, had a talent for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1611,1987,220,61,674,1985,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monarchy","category-prince-harry","category-second-world-war","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-the-queen","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29697,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29696\/revisions\/29697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}