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To: llevrok

If Chuck can wear a pretend military costume, so can I.


32 posted on 05/06/2023 10:23:46 AM PDT by DPMD (ua)
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To: DPMD

King Charles has done military service. I don’t think much of the man, but that doesn’t cancel the facts of his life.


68 posted on 05/06/2023 11:55:12 AM PDT by Romulus
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To: DPMD
If Chuck can wear a pretend military costume, so can I.

Chuck served on active duty in the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy, 60s and 70s. Next, because the Royal Family are the top patrons of the Royal military and top diplomats in UK—performing some roles similar to our DoD and our State Department—he then received appointments as a patron/overseer of various military groups to prepare him for eventually becoming King and Commander in Chief: Wikipedia says:

Charles's first honorary appointment in the armed forces was as Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Regiment of Wales in 1969; since then, he has also been installed as Colonel-in-Chief, Colonel, Honorary Air Commodore, Air Commodore-in-Chief, Deputy Colonel-in-Chief, Royal Honorary Colonel, Royal Colonel, and Honorary Commodore of at least 32 military formations throughout the Commonwealth...

Since 2009, Charles [held] the second-highest ranks in all three branches of the Canadian Forces and, [in] 2012, the [late] Queen awarded him the highest honorary rank in all three branches of the British Armed Forces, “to acknowledge his support in her role as Commander-in-Chief”, installing him as Admiral of the Fleet, Field Marshal and Marshal of the Royal Air Force.

I don't know the status of those ranks now that he is the Sovereign. One of his first duties after Elizabeth II passed was to reorder appointments. Regardless, male Sovereigns in Europe, even if long retired from active duty, traditionally wear military uniforms due to their national leadership role.
111 posted on 05/07/2023 3:02:47 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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