Prince Charles remembers the sacrifice of British forces

Title

Prince Charles remembers the sacrifice of British forces

Genre

Speech

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1991

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Duration

00:11:33

Description

Speech (by Prince Charles, Prince of Wales?) in which he addresses the Lord Mayor of London, Prime Minister John Major and others at the Guildhall in London. On the end of the Gulf war and pays tribute to the troops returning home after victory, quoting Queen Victoria and Rudyard Kipling’s poem The Verdicts.

Contributors

Prince Charles?; Prince of Wales?

Keywords

London; Armed forces; Military personnel; Royal family; Royalty; Special forces; Poetry; Guildhall; Wars (events); Gulf War (1990-1991); Desert warfare; The Verdicts

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