Category Archives: British Royals

News Regarding His Royal Highness The Duke of Cambridge. (VIDEO)

Per the Telegraph newspaper:

“The Duke of Cambridge will appear in Helicopter Rescue which follows the Search and Rescue team at the prince’s base at RAF Valley on Anglesey.

BBC Wales was given exclusive access to the teams at Prince William’s base of RAF Valley on Anglesey for the programme Helicopter Rescue.

The TV programme will show the working day of Flight Lieutenant Wales and some of the missions that he is called out on.

In a teaser for the programme ahead of its broadcast on April 8, Flt Lt Wales is shown flying a Sea King helicopter on a rescue mission to a slate quarry in Blaenau Ffestiniog.

The 30-year-old has to hover the helicopter as a boy and one of his crew are winched from the ground after the boy had fallen off an old railway bridge onto rocks.

“As captain you’re trying to play out the entire rescue, the transit to the rescue and back again in your mind, and pick up any circumstances or problems you can foresee, and try and fix them on the ground before you get airborne,” Flt Lt Wales says in the programme.”

HM Queen Elizabeth II and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh Attend Maundy Service. (VIDEOS)

On March 28, 2013, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh attended Maundy Service held at the Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford. Her Majesty will distribute the Royal Maundy during the Service.  During today’s event Her Majesty “…Her Majesty distributed the traditional Royal Maundy money during the Service.”

To read more about today’s event as well as to watch videos please click the links below.

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales Plants a Tree in Memory of the Late Ms.Wangari Maathai.

PoWOn March 27, 2013, His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales was at Kew Gardens where he planted a tree in memory of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (2004), founder of the Green Belt Movement, environmentalist, political and human rights activist the late Ms. Wangari Maathai.  Ms. Maathai, born in Kenya, died of Ovarian cancer in 2011.

During today’s event the heir to the British throne gave a moving speech regarding the late Ms. Maathai and vowed to end the disgusting practice of “…illegal poaching of wild animals.”

According to the official website for the Prince of Wales:

“The Prince [will] join forces with his son, the Duke of Cambridge, and stage a conference on the illegal poaching of wild animals. The Prince is Patron of the WWF-UK and The Duke is Patron of Tusk Trust, both conservation charities working to preserve endangered species for future generations.

His Royal Highness will host the summit at St James’s Palace in May, gathering together key conservationists and policy decision-makers to find a solution to the problem The Prince described as having reached ‘crisis point’.”

Click here to view a photo gallery. 

To learn more about the life of Ms. Wangari Maathai please click here and here.  

Or, you can watch the tribute film/video below as well as the brilliant documentary, Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai.   🙂

Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall Visits a School in Croydon. (VIDEOS)

On March 27, 2013, Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall was in Croydon to visit the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology.  During her tour of the school the lovely duchess met with “…students and staff, viewed the facilities across the campus and watched part of a performance of ‘Pippin’…” 

For more information about today’s visit as well as to view photos please click here.

Click here to watch another video.

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales Attends the Prince’s Trust & Samsung Celebrate Success Awards. (VIDEO)

On March 26, 2013, His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, as President of the Prince’s Trust, was at the Odeon Leicester Square in London to attend the “…UK finals of The Prince’s Trust & Samsung Celebrate Success Awards.  The awards recognize the achievements of young people supported by The Trust who have succeeded against the odds, improved their chances in life and had a positive impact on their local community.”

Click here to view a gallery of photos.

HRH The Duke of Edinburgh Re-Opens the Highlanders’ Museum.

TheDukeOn March 26, 2013, His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh was at Fort George in Inverness, Scotland to officially re-open the Highlanders’ Museum.  The duke also visited the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders’ War Memorial Youth Club and participated in meeting as well as dinner held at the at the Speculative Society in Edinburgh.

Please click here for detailed information about today’s re-opening of the Highlanders’ Museum.