The Prince of Wales aka King Charles III


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When the green light flickers hang on to your knickers,welcome to Buck house grab a granny night   Rog    

Don't work for me    Boom boom boom let me hear you say Wales       

As a devout royalist, I think he's a bit of a buffoon, but it's entirely due to his upbringing, with the old bat, the Queen Mother deciding his lifestyle for him. Thank God William and Harry can think

me too ir reminded me ofwatching piggy playing his carp when fishing hence the tight lines coment

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As a devout royalist, I think he's a bit of a buffoon, but it's entirely due to his upbringing, with the old bat, the Queen Mother deciding his lifestyle for him. Thank God William and Harry can think for themselves ! 

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Harry may be able to think for himswelf, Fly but I'm not at all sure about William.  Do they still say that Harry is the son of a Rugby player?

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In my post yesterday in the Nottingham Transport thread, I did not identify the chap I said was Number 5 in the photo. His name was Jim Lancaster; know to all as Jim Lanc. He was a foreman in the flight hangar at Hucknall; a soft-spoken gentle man, liked by everyone, who hailed for the Northeast (Sunderland, I think). Like so many others at R-R Hucknall, he had always been around aircraft. Most of them had been either with the RAF or working for others companies. Then there were the Polish ex-airmen. It was wonderful listening to the tales that they told, and I remember well Jim Lanc telling me about the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII).

   Jim was with the weekend flyers, 607 County of Durham Squadron based at Usworth. In 1935, Queen Astrid of the Belgians was killed in a car crash and the Prince of Wales was attend her funeral. He was to fly to Belgium from Usworth, escorted by aircraft of 607 Squadron. Jim was in one of the aircraft, in the gunner's seat behind the pilot. Came the day and the hour, His Highness was nowhere to be seen; the aircraft waiting with their engines ticking over. When he eventually arrived, in all his finery, he was drunk, and could hardly stand up. He made a number of attempts the climb the two or three steps into the aircraft taking him there, but couldn't make it. His equerry, totally disgusted with it all and the embarrassment, took hold of the collar and bottom of his coat and threw him through the door into the cabin. He then threw his sword in after him, closed the door and off they went. As the accompanying aircraft flew alongside, it could be seen that the future king was being 'attended to' in order to get him in a fit state to attend the funeral. Of course, all this never got into the papers.

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You are funny Beekay, made me titter. Or totter, not sure which.

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