{"id":390965,"date":"2018-12-30T01:31:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T00:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-ailing-uk-queen-plans-lavish-home-re-service\/"},"modified":"2018-12-30T01:31:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T00:31:29","slug":"presstv-ailing-uk-queen-plans-lavish-home-re-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-ailing-uk-queen-plans-lavish-home-re-service\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Ailing UK Queen plans lavish home re-service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The Queen Elizabeth II, the ailing British monarch who is currently 92, is planning a massive renovation of her historic residence in London with estimates suggesting the project will drain around half a billion dollar of the British taxpayer money.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Mirror<\/em> reported on Saturday that the queen would be forced to move out of the Buckingham Palace, the 300-year-old residence she has been living in for the past decades, as the palace is undergoing renovations worth of about $468 million (or \u00a3369 million).<\/p>\n<p>The report said the refurbishment of the palace, erected in 1703, would include replacing ageing cables, wires and boilers.<\/p>\n<p>It said there was also the possibility for the monarch and her husband, Prince Philippe, 97, to stay at the palace and relocate to another wing.<\/p>\n<p>Some media outlets and online users seized the opportunity to joke about the luxurious life-style of the ailing pair in the Buckingham Palace, saying that the giant&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/12\/29\/584325\/Ailing-British-monarch-plans-reservice-of-home\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Queen Elizabeth II, the ailing British monarch who is currently 92, is planning a massive renovation of her historic residence in London with estimates suggesting the project will drain around half a billion dollar of the British taxpayer money. The Daily Mirror reported on Saturday that the queen would be forced to move out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-390965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}