#KingCharlesReport: Colonelship of the Army Air Corp to the Prince of Wales.
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🗓️ 15 May 2024
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#KingCharlesReport: Colonelship of the Army Air Corp to the Prince of Wales.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2024/05/13/king-hand-over-military-role-william-first-joint-engagement/
January 1941 inspection of the Home Guard
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| 0:00.0 | This is a CBSI in the world. |
| 0:05.0 | Gregory Coppley, my friend and colleague is here. |
| 0:09.0 | He's traveling. |
| 0:10.0 | He's in London. |
| 0:11.0 | He achieved an award in London. I'm asking Gregory to remind me what to call it. |
| 0:16.5 | Gregory, you have the access to the city. What does that mean? |
| 0:20.9 | It's called the freedom of the city of London and it's an ancient right so that for |
| 0:29.2 | people with certain skills and guilds, professional guilds, can work in the city of London, be |
| 0:36.4 | free from the threat of press gangs, in other words being pressed into the service |
| 0:42.1 | and Royal Navy or the British Army and so you can go |
| 0:46.7 | keep going about your business without that sort of fear and it was the someone who's a |
| 0:52.2 | freeman of the city who had a free man |
| 0:53.0 | had a skill and worked for a certain guild |
| 0:57.0 | within a guild or profession |
| 1:00.0 | basically was no longer a surf and therefore could be, you know, was a free man to work however he wished. |
| 1:08.0 | So this is a wonderful honor which they've been giving out for about, you know, close on a thousand years. |
| 1:14.8 | And so I was very fortunate today to be received into that as part of the particular guild, which is the worshipful company of Fletcher's, and |
| 1:27.8 | Fletcher's are people who make arrows, particularly the arrow feathering. |
| 1:33.0 | These were part of the original military industrial complex. |
| 1:37.0 | And the Fletcher's, the company of Fletcher's, |
| 1:42.0 | is one of five Warrior Guilds in the City of London Guilds. |
| 1:47.3 | So it doesn't mean much except that I can eventually stand for election to be Lord Mayor of London if I wanted or if I even had a shot at it. |
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