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#KingCharlesReport: Queen Camilla remembers her Father's stories of the Royal Lancers.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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#KingCharlesReport: Queen Camilla remembers her Father's stories of the Royal Lancers.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2024/04/22/camilla-jokes-about-royal-lancer-capacity-for-drinking-beer/

1942 ROYAL LANCERS IN NORTH AFRICA

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and the report is wonderful.

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It's about the Queen, Queen Camilla, who visited with her father's unit, the 12th

0:46.7

Lancers, Major Bruce Chand was his name, and the Queen in doing a tour of the Guard, these are the Royal Lancers, wore a sort of uniform-like presentation.

1:00.0

And she was quite cheerful, addressing her regiment for the first time at their North Yorkshire barracks having become

1:06.8

Colonel and chief last June. The Queen said she reflected on her father's experiences and joked I shan't ask about the

1:14.8

NCO's capacity for beer. The room roared. Gregory what are the Royal

1:19.8

Lancers? What was their place in history?

1:22.4

Well the Royal Lancers which had answers. What was there place in history?

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Well, the Royal Lancers, which had several different components, that's a cavalry unit, and they have a long and distinguished history in warfare and the Queen's father, Major

1:37.9

Shand, was active in the Twelfth Lancet in the withdrawal through Dunkirk in the early stages of World War II and he basically

1:49.2

was distinguished himself there. He won the military, which is one of the highest awards for

1:54.2

Gallantry under fire. So he had a particularly strong feeling about the regiment and basically

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