King Charles announced army appointments for working individuals of the royal family, along with Queen Camilla, Prince William, Princess Kate and more.
Kate Middleton is adding to her royal résumé.
On Friday, Buckingham Palace and King Charles announced new army appointments for nine participants of the royal household along with the Princess of Wales. The King, Queen Camilla, Prince William, Prince Edward, Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, Princess Anne, Prince Richard and Birgitte, the Duchess of Gloucester have additionally been awarded new royal roles. The cohort already held a range of army affiliations, and the replace comes a month beforehand of King Charles’ first Accession Day.
“Following His Majesty’s Accession, The King is pleased to announce further military appointments for working Members of the Royal Family,” the palace said in the announcement. “The new appointments will proceed to replicate the shut relationship between the Armed Forces and the Royal Family in His Majesty’s reign.”
Princess Kate, 41, becomes the Commodore-in-Chief of the Fleet Air Arm, Colonel-in-Chief of the 1st Queen’s Dragoon Guards and Royal Honorary Air Commodore of Royal Air Force Coningsby.
The remaining appointment is specially sentimental for Kate, as one of her grandfathers served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) — and reportedly labored with Prince Philip! According to Hello!, Captain Peter Middleton flew as a co-pilot with Prince Philip all through an aerial tour of South America in 1962.
Kate’s new RAF appointment bolsters a bond to the department that was already strong. Her husband flew as an RAF Search and Rescue pilot primarily based at RAF Valley in Anglesey, Wales, from 2010 to 2013, and the couple preserve other RAF-related appointments. The Prince of Wales, 41, serves as the Honorary Air Commandant of RAF Coningsby, whilst Princess Kate is the Honorary Air Commodore of the Air Cadets. In July, William and Kate took their three children — Prince George, 10, Princess Charlotte, 8, and Prince Louis, 5 — for a family field day out to the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, the world’s biggest army air show.
Like his wife, the palace introduced that Prince William has additionally been awarded three new appointments. The inheritor to the British throne will now be acknowledged as Colonel-in-Chief, The Mercian Regiment; Colonel-in-Chief, The Army Air Corps; and Royal Honorary Air Commodore, RAF Valley — where he beforehand flew as a pilot.
While King Charles, 74, grew to become Head of the Armed Forces when he acceded to the throne following Queen Elizabeth’s dying in September 2022, he is additionally taking on extra military affiliations. The King is now Sponsor of the HMS Queen Elizabeth, Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Tank Regiment, Captain General of the Royal Artillery, Captain General of the Honourable Artillery Company, Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Regiment of Scotland, Royal Honorary Air Commodore of RAF Marham and Air Commodore-in-Chief of RAF Regiment.
The King can also sense specially linked to the HMS Queen Elizabeth and RAF affiliations as he skilled and served in both the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force for the duration of his time as heir.
His wife, Queen Camilla, becomes patron of The Royal Army Chaplains’ Department. Camilla, 76, additionally acts as Colonel-in-Chief of The Royal Lancers (the regiment her late father, Major Bruce Shand, served with all through World War II) as properly as Colonel-in-Chief of The Rifles and Colonel of the Grenadier Guards.
Camilla’s royal position with the Grenadier Guards was announced nearly a yr after Prince Andrew was eliminated from the position. In January 2022, Queen Elizabeth stripped her second son of his military titles and patronages after he was once accused of sexual assault in a lawsuit filed by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, an alleged victim of convicted sex wrongdoer Jeffrey Epstein. Prince Andrew has denied any wrongdoing and settled with Giuffre out of courtroom in February 2022.
In December, King Charles named his wife to the ceremonial role with the celebrated regiment. The monarch additionally made Prince William the honorary Colonel of the Welsh Guards and Princess Kate the honorary Colonel of the Irish Guards (taking over the title after her husband!) in the same motion.
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