PREVIEW: #KING CHARLES: PRINCE WILLIAM: Conversation with colleague Gregory Copley re: the passing of the baton of the Colonelship of the Army Air Corps from the King to Prince William. Also, happy news about the King returning to scrupulous duty.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 14 May 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Bachelor, conversation with my good colleague Gregory Coppley, |
| 0:05.0 | Defense and Foreign Affairs in London to receive freedom of the city from the Fletcher's Union Guild that's making Arrowheads. It's a wonderful honor to |
| 0:15.6 | Gregory all these years of traveling in the Commonwealth, the former Empire. |
| 0:19.6 | Gregory also gives me to understand the significance of King Charles, passing the honorary |
| 0:27.1 | colonel ship of the Army Air Corps to his son, the Prince of Wales, William. |
| 0:33.0 | Charles was Colonel's ship for 42 years, |
| 0:37.0 | and both of them are pilots, William, as Gregory explains, |
| 0:41.0 | was a helicopter pilot in Air Sea rescue. Also Gregory has a comment |
| 0:46.4 | what he learned from people in London, people around the palace, but the King's |
| 0:51.6 | health which is a very positive report. So here's Gregory Coppley, |
| 0:55.2 | Defense and Foreign Affairs, new freedom of the city, freedom of London, and also |
| 1:00.6 | commenting on the significance of passing the baton of the Army Air Corps, |
| 1:06.4 | the helicopters. More of this later. |
| 1:09.7 | That's correct. So there's a position of honorary colonel, which is the guardian |
| 1:14.9 | colonel ship, if you like, of a regiment or a corps. So Prince Charles, who was himself a pilot, was the honorary colonel of the Army Air Corps for those |
| 1:29.6 | 42 years. |
| 1:30.6 | And the Army Air Corps has grown from strength to strength, and by passing it along to the |
| 1:36.1 | Prince of Wales now, Prince William, Prince William himself was an incredibly successful helicopter pilot and involved in air seat rescue operations and the like. |
| 1:49.0 | So this is really up his alley to be able to do this. Now, Prince William, when he was flying helicopters |
| 1:58.3 | for a living, he was with the Royal Air Force, not with the Army, but nonetheless he is well placed to be Colonel and |
| 2:08.8 | chief of the Army Air Corps. And it does start to signal the transfer of responsibilities of the |
| 2:16.8 | authority and prestige to the Crown Prince because we've seen King Charles come to the throne very, very late in life later than any other king. |
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