{"id":7223,"date":"2008-11-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/11\/15\/india-facinates-europe-royalty\/"},"modified":"2008-11-15T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T12:00:00","slug":"india-facinates-europe-royalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/11\/15\/india-facinates-europe-royalty\/","title":{"rendered":"India Facinates Europe&#8217; Royalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/royalnews.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/13\/crown-princess-maxima-opens-amsterdam-india-festival\/\">royalnews.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, November 15, 2008:  It seems like there&#8217;s India fever with royals lately. Belgium&#8217;s King Albert II and Queen Paola of Belgium just got back from a 10 day tour of the country. Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden also spent nearly two weeks there last month.<\/p>\n<p>King Albert II, in his visit, made a point of meeting and honoring religious components of the country. With his wife, Queen Paola, the sovereign started by visiting a Hindu temple, where they received a tilak and garlands of flowers. They have also visited a Sikh temple, a Muslim masjid and a Jain temple. <\/p>\n<p>Another European royal celebrated Indian culture this week, this time in her own country. Crown Princess Maxima of the Netherlands launched the Amsterdam-India festival on Wednesday, a two week event in Amsterdam. Until November 30th, the Amsterdam-India Festival will hold concerts, exhibitions, seminars and many more to celebrate India&#8217;s unique culture.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>royalnews.wordpress.com AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, November 15, 2008: It seems like there&#8217;s India fever with royals lately. Belgium&#8217;s King Albert II,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}