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To: naturalman1975

Prince Andrew deployed to the Falklands in the summer of 1982, and Queenie let him go (but, then again, he wasn’t the Heir to the Throne...)


14 posted on 07/03/2010 8:18:16 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

No - at the time Prince Andrew was, himself, the “spare”.

Practice is that either the heir or the spare can be allowed to serve in combat situations - not both. The Prince of Wales was out of the Navy by 1982 anyway, but if he had still be in operational service, they’d have had to resolve the issue there.


22 posted on 07/03/2010 8:25:51 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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