Queen to pay tribute to her father’s service with Royal Lancers
The TelegraphThe Queen will make her first visit to the Royal Lancers since being named the regiment’s colonel-in-chief and will pay tribute to her late father’s service. In the foreword to a new book about the regiment, the Queen said her personal connections made her “enormously proud of the regiment’s long and illustrious history”. In the officers’ mess, she will meet Major Phil Watson, author of Their Greatest Hour, a book recounting the story of the 21 days during which the 12th Lancers guarded the retreat of the British Expeditionary Force’s withdrawal to Dunkirk in 1940. Epitome of Britishness The Queen wrote the foreword to the book, in which she described how the story of Dunkirk “has found its way into the British consciousness to such a degree it has come to epitomise the very essence of Britishness at times of national hardship.” “As colonel-in-chief of the Royal Lancers and the daughter of a 12th Royal Lancer, I am enormously proud of the regiment’s long and illustrious history,” she wrote.
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