Queen's Private Anger at Loss of the Black Watch ; Tour Forces Ferdinand to Miss Royal Appointment
Daily Mail › December 10, 2004
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THE Queen has expressed her private concern over the prospect of the axe falling on the Black Watch, the regiment her late mother championed all her life.
Army chiefs meet today to decide the fate of Scotland's six regiments, including the Black Watch, which completed a monthlong tour in Iraq's most dangerous territory at the weekend.See the full content of this document
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Queen's Private Anger at Loss of the Black Watch ; Tour Forces Ferdinand to Miss Royal Appointment
But in a private message to a key campaigner fighting to keep the regimental structure, the Queen said if the Queen Mother were alive 'she would never have let this happen'.
Her letter to Audrey McCune, treasurer of the Save the Scottish Regiments, indicates the depth of feeling in the Royal household over the prospect of the Black Watch being consig...See the full content of this document
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