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To: Albion Wilde

“if you are referring to the red poppy”

nope. referring to the white cat like looking pin to the left of the poppy.

Tell me again what Charles does to earn his royal mantle?

From a Patriot’s perspective the lucky sperm club doesn’t cut it.


118 posted on 09/04/2017 3:55:04 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Eddie01
nope. referring to the white cat like looking pin to the left of the poppy.

Actually, I can tell you exactly what that is. It is the badge of the Gordon Highlanders, a British Army regiment of which the Prince of Wales was Colonel-in-Chief until it was amalgamated into a new regiment in 1994 (he is also Colonel-in-Chief of that new regiment). He is also wearing the badges of a number of other regiments of which he is Colonel-in-Chief (the Welsh Guards, 7 Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland (current incarnation of what was historically the 51st Highland Regiment), and the Mercian Brigade (now part of the Princes of Wales' Division), as well as the badge of the UK Veterans Association (which is entitled to wear as a former serving officer).

The medals he is wearing are also not fake medals - he has the qualifying service to wear each one of them. None of them are particularly impressive medals - five of them are ceremonial medals awarded to thousands of British or Commonwealth servicemen who participated in certain royal events (in his case, the Coronation of his mother, and her silver, golden, and diamond jubilees), one is a New Zealand medal of the same type, and three are service medals for service in the British, Canadian and New Zealand forces (in the case of the second and third, his service as honourary Colonel of some Canadian and New Zealand regiments are held to qualify). The only one he has really been deemed to have done anything unusual to wear in the first one - which marks him as a Companion of the Queen's Service Order, New Zealand, which he was given for his patronage of various New Zealand charities.

He also has the Order of Merit around his neck which his mother gave him.

128 posted on 09/04/2017 5:39:52 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: Eddie01

I’m no fan of Charles. But I’m a big fan of the red poppy, so thanks for indicating you were not disparaging it.


152 posted on 09/05/2017 12:35:10 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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