{"id":119109,"date":"2025-01-16T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T00:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/01\/16\/rod-stewart-and-wife-appointed-ambassadors-for-king-charles-charity-foundation\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T00:01:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T00:01:44","slug":"rod-stewart-and-wife-appointed-ambassadors-for-king-charles-charity-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/01\/16\/rod-stewart-and-wife-appointed-ambassadors-for-king-charles-charity-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Rod Stewart and wife appointed ambassadors for King Charles&#8217; charity foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-15\/Getty_Rod%20and%20Penny%20with%20King%20Charles_011525.jpg\" alt><figcaption>HRH King Charles, Penny Lancaster, Rod Stewart; Jane Barlow &#8211; WPA Pool\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Rod Stewart<\/strong> and his wife,\u00a0<strong>Penny Lancaster<\/strong>,\u00a0are friends with the U.K.&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>King Charles<\/strong>, so it&#8217;s no surprise they&#8217;ll be <a href=\"https:\/\/kings-foundation.org\/sir-rod-stewart-and-penny-lancaster-become-ambassadors-for-the-kings-foundation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/kings-foundation.org\/sir-rod-stewart-and-penny-lancaster-become-ambassadors-for-the-kings-foundation\/\">helping out one of his charities<\/a>, The King&#8217;s Foundation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DE0rA1HNCVe\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DE0rA1HNCVe\/?img_index=1\">in the new year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Charles started the <a href=\"https:\/\/kings-foundation.org\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/kings-foundation.org\/about-us\/\">foundation<\/a> in 1990, when he was still Prince of Wales. It works to provide education, public services and consultancy in sectors that he&#8217;s particularly interested in: education and sustainability, farming and agriculture, traditional arts and crafts, health and well-being, and architecture and urbanism.<\/p>\n<p>Rod\u00a0\u2014 who, lest we forget, is technically Sir Rod \u2014 and Penny aka <strong>Lady Stewart<\/strong>\u00a0were inspired to get involved in The King&#8217;s Foundation when they met people who&#8217;ve benefited from it at the foundation&#8217;s annual awards ceremony in June, according to a release.<\/p>\n<p>The foundation is currently celebrating its 35th year, and Rod says in a statement, &#8220;We are so pleased to be coming on board as ambassadors for The King\u2019s Foundation and look forward to lending our support to this worthwhile cause, particularly during such a significant year for the charity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The chief executive of The King&#8217;s Foundation said, &#8220;We are so pleased that [Rod and Penny] are officially joining us [on] our mission to build sustainable communities and transform lives across the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rod performed at the Platinum Jubilee of Charles&#8217; mother, <strong>Queen Elizabeth II<\/strong>, in 2022 but didn&#8217;t sing at Charles&#8217; 2023 coronation because he had a show in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HRH King Charles, Penny Lancaster, Rod Stewart; Jane Barlow &#8211; WPA Pool\/Getty Images Rod Stewart and his wife,\u00a0Penny Lancaster,\u00a0are friends with the U.K.&#8217;s\u00a0King Charles, so it&#8217;s no surprise they&#8217;ll be helping out one of his charities, The King&#8217;s Foundation, in the new year. Charles started the foundation in 1990, when<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/01\/16\/rod-stewart-and-wife-appointed-ambassadors-for-king-charles-charity-foundation\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,430,452],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}