{"id":1206837,"date":"2022-09-19T07:16:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T07:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/19\/asantehene-will-not-be-able-to-attend-queen-elizabeths-funeral-despite-invite\/"},"modified":"2022-09-19T07:16:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T07:16:44","slug":"asantehene-will-not-be-able-to-attend-queen-elizabeths-funeral-despite-invite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/19\/asantehene-will-not-be-able-to-attend-queen-elizabeths-funeral-despite-invite\/","title":{"rendered":"Asantehene will not be able to attend Queen Elizabeth&#8217;s funeral despite invite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2><strong>The ruler of the Asante Kingdom, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, will not be present at the upcoming funeral for Queen Elizabeth II.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Manhyia Palace has issued an official statement confirming the news. This announcement comes only days after Asantehene received an invitation from the new British monarch, King Charles III, to attend the burial of his mother.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana High Commission in the United Kingdom sent Otumfuo an invitation. The Queen\u2019s Lying-In-State, the King\u2019s Reception, the State Funeral Services, and the Foreign Secretary\u2019s Reception are all events to which Otumfuo has been invited, together with his wife, Lady Julia Osei Tutu.<\/p>\n<p>Although he was invited, the Asantehene cannot attend the burial. This is what Manhyia said in a message that was widely disseminated online: \u201cUnfortunately, His Royal Majesty Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II cannot go to London to participate in the State Funeral for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO:\u00a0Asantehene\u2019s wife Lady Julia pays bills of 26 patients on admission at KATH<\/p>\n<p>According to a letter dated September 15, 2022 with the subject RE: 211\/2022 and seen by Opemsuo 104.7 FM, His Majesty Otumfuo Asantehene would not be present at the celebrations commemorating the State Funeral \u201c.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>There has been no mention of why the Asantehene cannot attend the burial. Some people on social media are already expressing amazement at the news.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, September 8, 2022, Queen Elizabeth II died away at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. According to the BBC, her burial will follow a state funeral on Monday, September 19, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>News organization CNN reports that numerous foreign leaders have been invited to attend Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s royal funeral.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_283011\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-283011\" style=\"width: 473px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"5\" class=\"wp-image-283011 size-full\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"473\"  data-lazy- src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-19-at-7.06.48-AM.png\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"5\" class=\"wp-image-283011 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-19-at-7.06.48-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"473\"  \/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-283011\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asantehene will not attend Queen Elizabeth\u2019s funeral despite invite \u2013 Manhyia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Up to this point, the funeral attendance of Australia\u2019s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, New Zealand\u2019s Jacinda Ardern, and Canada\u2019s Justin Trudeau has been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; The ruler of the Asante Kingdom, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, will not be present at the upcoming funeral for Queen Elizabeth II. The Manhyia Palace has issued an official statement confirming the news. This announcement comes only days after Asantehene received an invitation from the new British monarch, King Charles III, to attend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1206841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8613,253,10396,7976,5446,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-1206837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-asantehene","9":"tag-attend","10":"tag-elizabeths","11":"tag-funeral","12":"tag-invite","13":"tag-queen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}