| In fact, most servicemen would not trust their wives to iron their kit, says one Royal Marines officer. |
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| In 1970 the Admiralty abolished the rum ration within the Royal Navy, apparently on health grounds. |
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| He joined the Royal Navy when he left school, and during the second world war he served on minesweepers. |
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| Type 22 frigate HMS Cumberland has been lending one of the Royal Navy's carriers a hand during a crucial training period. |
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| I intend that the Hunting Stewart tartan trews worn by the Royal Scots will become standard mess dress for all the ship's officers. |
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| He leads a tour for Friends of the Royal Academy to Picasso museums and sites in Barcelona, Madrid and Malaga. |
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| He joined the crew of the Ark Royal a little over a year ago, just before the Queen Mother rededicated the ship. |
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| The 32 warships of the Royal Navy included five carriers, six cruisers, seven destroyers, and 14 frigates. |
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| It was taped at the Royal Festival Hall on the 18th of September 1983 in immaculate sound and balance. |
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| However, having served 12 years in the Royal Navy, Richard knew a thing or two about spit and polish. |
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| Frankie Dettori completed a double on Ladies' Day at Royal Ascot on Thursday as he won the Gold Cup on board Papineau. |
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| In 1963 he became professor of pathology at the institute and a founder fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists. |
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| Operated by the Royal Observer Corps, it was also charged with monitoring lethal radioactive fallout. |
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| Dettori accompanied Sheikh Mohammed to the races at Royal Ascot wearing a top hat, tails, and a cast on his broken right ankle. |
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| Not enough was done, and at times it felt our material was tailing after Royal Mail's rather than defining our own agenda. |
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| The Royal Navy's two new assault ships have put to sea side-by-side for the first time. |
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| In 1984 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London in recognition of his talents. |
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| The problem is their PR machine is not a patch on that of Royal Bank of Scotland. |
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| The Royal Navy in those years was a deep well of talent, creativity and confidence. |
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| The second world war interrupted his studies and he was called up into the Royal Air Force as a navigator. |
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| The camera pulls back to reveal three acrobats performing on sashes against the spectacular roof of the Royal Horticultural Halls in Victoria. |
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| A Skipton pilot was commended by the Royal Air Force for successfully landing a burning aircraft at Portsmouth airport. |
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| We also read an article about how George Washington almost became a midshipman in England's Royal Navy in his early years. |
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| They hurried Down the hall and through the great entrance over to the Royal Stables where two stable boys had their horses ready. |
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| In autumn sunshine, Royal British Legion stalwarts and young uniformed cadets stood shoulder to shoulder. |
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| He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1907 and, in 1913, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London. |
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| He was one of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst cadets on their regular overseas exercise. |
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| A prominent feature of the festivities were public television screenings as cameras filmed a Royal event for the first time. |
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| This meant that they had to take on Fighter Command, led by Sir Hugh Dowding, of the Royal Air Force. |
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| Racegoers decked out in top hat and tails get ready for next month's Royal Ascot meeting at York Races yesterday. |
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| They also hold the enlistment papers for First World War Royal Navy ratings and some Royal Marines. |
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| It was during the 1939-45 war, that the Royal Marines took on a commando role, linking the regiment to the Army Commandos that already existed. |
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| Pat and son Fergus are involved in the Bolger family joinery and furniture business at Wells, Royal Oak. |
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| It's taken you years to rehabilitate your reputation and you finally seemed to have mended bridges with the Royal Family. |
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| His Royal Warwickshire Regiment cap badge features the antelope which was the regiment's mascot. |
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| Only Basildon and Thurrock General had a worse record than the Royal Bolton Hospital, according to the Department of Health. |
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| From September she will board at the White Lodge in Richmond Park London, the Royal Ballet's accommodation. |
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| Traditionally, the Royal Standard should only be used by Her Majesty the Queen in her capacity as Queen of Scots. |
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| The fourth recipient of an honorary degree was Lord May, president of the Royal Society and a former chief scientific adviser to the Government. |
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| A team of Royal Navy marines joined the rescue effort before Conan endured a 17-hour journey back to base camp on the back of a yak. |
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| When she finally left Quarriers, aged almost 17, she eventually secured a job as a nursing auxiliary with the Royal Infirmary in Glasgow. |
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| He acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2002, in Island Princess, The Malcontent, Edward III and The Roman Actor. |
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| The Royal Navy's top admiral has sent a personal message of congratulations to record-breaking yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur. |
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| We parked in the car park opposite York Theatre Royal in St Leonard's Place. |
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| The men, from the Queen's Royal Lancers, were named as Corporal Adams and Trooper Clarke. |
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| A television programme recreating the sinking of the Second World War battleship, Royal Oak, was broadcast on Grampian TV on Friday night. |
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| He made sure the Royal Canadian Redcoats were by far the most authentically costumed of those in any Hollywood production. |
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| Samuel Pepys was the son of a London tailor and a president of the Royal Society. |
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| Fans are encouraged to attend in their kit and a collection will be taken for the Burns Unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary. |
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| The Royal Navy's carriers will, at 65,000 tonnes, be smaller, but they are likely to have the same propulsion system. |
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| In another sector, men of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers were busy fraternising with the enemy and exchanging presents and regimental badges. |
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| Though bitterly contested by isolationists, the bill became law in March 1941, and ten US Coastguard cutters were transferred to the Royal Navy. |
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| On receiving a telephone call asking him to arrange delivery of the raffle prize, he asked that it be entrusted to Royal Mail. |
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| The picture was taken in the late Forties, when her father had been demobbed from the Royal Artillery. |
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| Mr Simpson was taken to Huddersfield Royal Infirmary where he was said last night to be in a serious condition, with multiple stab wounds. |
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| On May 7, the Saudi Arabia Royal Cup, the Oasis Stakes Race, was held at Tokyo Racetrack. |
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| The Royal Navy was closely involved in the early development of wireless technology. |
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| One of the Royal Navy's hi-tech minehunters has spent more than half of the last year far from home, in the Baltic. |
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| Cirque du Soleil is back in town at the Royal Albert Hall and so naturally when the offer of tickets came up I jumped at it. |
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| The Royal Mail is currently in negotiations with other firms such as TPG and Deutsche Post to deliver their mail. |
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| By 1901 there were 230,000 volunteers, augmented by the Royal Navy and Royal Artillery Volunteers, the militia and the yeomanry. |
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| His Royal Highness, Prince Philip, in his role as Admiral of the Fleet, will review the assembled ships from the hydrographic ship Melville. |
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| He had to be physically restrained after kicking off in the accident and emergency department at Blackburn Royal Infirmary. |
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| Daily mean temperatures, wind speeds, humidities, and rainfalls for each region were supplied by the Royal Meteorological Office. |
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| The plane, discovered off the west coast near Oban by Royal Navy minesweepers, is a world war two Catalina. |
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| A pair of climbers were benighted in a storm at the top of Royal Arches without overnight gear. |
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| The woman was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary where she has been kept in for observation. |
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| Colin, who left the Royal Navy in 1958 because of an injury, became a joiner with Shepherd's before joining York Carriageworks. |
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| After joining up in 1998, Cpl Fox served in Germany and in Kosovo as an intelligence and security clerk with the Queen's Royal Hussars. |
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| Police moved in on one of perpetrators as she was shopping at the Royal Garden Plaza. |
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| The theatre itself is shaped like the lunar module used to land on the moon and is placed within the fine architecture of the Royal Exchange. |
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| This inquiry should have been ordered last year when the Royal Infirmary management was crying out for funding and direction. |
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| During its history the room was used for prayer, as secure storage to lock away treasures and as a Royal guest room. |
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| First Love, owned by Her Majesty the Queen Mother, can add a Royal flavour to proceedings at Sandown tomorrow. |
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| He also served with the Royal Jordanian Airforce anti-tank wing where he received his wings as a Cobra attack pilot. |
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| I don't, frankly, think the Royal Family did look on them as particularly pleasant or savory people. |
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| Although the final totals have yet to be calculated, a spokeswoman for the Theatre Royal said it had been a record-breaking year. |
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| The no-more-bowing decision was credited to His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, an amiable, faintly woebegone chap who is a cousin of the queen. |
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| He also had two stitches put in a wound to his scalp after being taken by ambulance to the Royal Lancaster Infirmary. |
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| Mr Thomas, who was a pilot in World War II, visited the base to be presented with new Royal Australian Air Force wings. |
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| Set in a beautifully kitsch New York, The Royal Tenenbaums tells the story of a most unusual family reunion. |
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| And we'll also have gorillas, crows, dogs, and the new president of the Royal Society of London. |
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| The major problem facing the Royal Navy is that its carriers are too small. |
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| His 60 was also a Royal Melbourne course record, bettering the previous mark by two strokes. |
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| Her mother married a dashing Jack-the-lad, who had been a lance corporal in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the war. |
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| He was a founder of the Royal Geographical Society and a president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. |
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| A fluffy cloud above the majestic Royal Yacht Britannia marks it out as a centre piece. |
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| If MPs approve the bill at its third and final reading in Parliament next week it will be passed for Royal Assent and become law. |
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| A nursing auxiliary on ward 23 at Bradford Royal Infirmary, she joined the NHS in 1979 and is now a health care assistant in elderly care. |
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| During the Second World War, the Royal Navy lost 254 major warships due to enemy action, in addition to 1,035 minor war vessels and auxiliaries. |
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| If Her Royal Highness wants to hold a worsbraai at Buckingham Palace, she can easily find out if your wors really is fit for royalty. |
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| At least a dozen councils are yet to supply ballot packs to the Royal Mail ready for posting. |
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| George Solomou is a lance corporal in the Royal Army Medical Corps, attached to the London Irish Rifles. |
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| She trained at the Royal Ballet School and performed briefly with the Royal Ballet. |
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| One of the hallmarks of his spell as Astronomer Royal is his popularization of astronomy. |
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| But neither film triggered a rush on the Royal Ballet School as Les Choristes has done on French choirs. |
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| Between the keelboat and dinghy fleets at Dundee's Royal Tay Yacht Club yesterday more than 40 entries took to the water. |
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| Hill himself retired from the Royal Navy as a rear admiral, having worked for Lewin in a number of appointments. |
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| He has also worked at well-known venues including the Royal Albert Hall and Wigmore Hall. |
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| A Royal Navy submarine was forced to pull out of exercises off the coast of Scotland early yesterday morning when it went aground. |
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| The Royal Family and the Army are inextricably bound up by tradition and personal links. |
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| The gun run, loosely based on the exploits of Naval squads in the Boer War, was a mainstay of the Royal Tournament. |
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| Some of these include the opening of the Chelsea Flower Show, Garter Day, Royal Ascot, and Remembrance Sunday. |
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| The craft will join a flotilla of Royal Navy ships and nearly one-quarter of the British Army. |
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| Chris, 21, said he was happy to be back in his home town after a long stint in Iraq as a sapper with his Germany-based Royal Engineers unit. |
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| On another occasion, 30 letters were sent by recorded delivery, with Royal Mail being unable to account for three of them. |
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| Other lots include the weighing room scales, urns from the Royal Box and Frankie Dettori's weighing room saddle tree. |
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| As the wind whipped up Edinburgh's Royal Mile, the French couple were counting the cost of their seven-day visit to Scotland. |
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| By the start of the war, the Royal Navy did have submarines but the Admiralty dictated how they should be used. |
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| From the length of the Royal Mile runs a spider's web of cobbled alleyways, ancient courtyards and wynds. |
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| He visited the Royal College of Defence Studies in England, and in 1964 was commissioned to an artillery regiment as an officer. |
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| Guests at Prestonfield can enjoy rural tranquillity, strutting peacocks and lowing Highland cattle without sacrificing access to the Royal Mile. |
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| The Royal Bank-backed Tesco Financial Services will also announce its first official profit when it declares its interims this week. |
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| Another friend is currently serving as a senior officer on an aircraft carrier for the Royal Navy. |
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| Paramedics treated Mr Reid, who was taken to the Royal Bolton Hospital suffering nothing more serious than minor cuts and bruises. |
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| You can hardly enter or leave the Royal Garden Plaza without tripping over someone's junk or having useless articles thrust into your face. |
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| An adviser to the Royal Mail has been involved in discussions with major banks. |
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| It wasn't quite as rarefied as Royal Ascot, and the weather was dodgy to say the least, but it was still fun to go racing at Ayr. |
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| The Royal Navy will attempt to stem the flow of oil from the sunken Royal Oak battleship by carrying out tests on a replica of the vessel. |
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| The 22-year-old sapper in 9 Parachute Squadron Royal Engineers was killed when youths hurled a lump of rock at his vehicle. |
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| The rich and famous can rattle around in sumptuous Grand Duplex Apartments, Royal Suites or Penthouses. |
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| The pair will celebrate the day with a good knees-up at the Royal British Legion in Stratton with friends and family. |
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| Colin was into things like the Royal Court Theatre and red-brick universities. |
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| Instead, hostilities found him posted first to the naval intelligence division of the Admiralty and then to the Royal Air Force. |
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| Charles Turner was serving with the Royal Air Force when his squadron got their flying orders for D-Day. |
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| The Admiral founded the Royal Thai Naval Academy and the Marine Engineering School. |
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| The Blood Royal of this actual Grail lineage persists, via the female line, in the royal houses of Europe to this day. |
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| Under this suspension, the Spanish Royal Guard is now authorized to enter and search the trailers and vehicles of any citizen. |
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| A former Admiral of Cork Royal Yacht Club, he was laid out in his yacht club blazer and tie, a sailing hat placed on his remains. |
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| The Royal Australian Navy has confirmed that a wreck located 10 nautical miles east of Cape Moreton is not the Centaur. |
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| He examines the issue of merchant ships being used as Royal Navy auxiliaries for commerce raiding and patrol duties. |
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| Some 700 Royal Mail coaches and more than 3,000 stagecoaches crisscrossed the country. |
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| We've had firework displays, organised Easter egg hunts and celebrated Royal jubilees on the green. |
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| More recently, it has been redesignated Headquarters Special Forces with all British special forces, including those of the Royal Marines, placed under it. |
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| At the height of the operation, in June 1944, there were more than 100,000 officers and ratings dedicated to this specialist branch of the Royal Navy. |
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| They praised the neurosurgeon and his staff at Hull Royal Infirmary who saved their son's life after he was rushed there shortly after the attack. |
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| Further south, the sight of snow had four junior Royal Navy ratings jumping for joy, because WTR Nekisha Seaman and her friends have never seen the white stuff before. |
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| I taught it to my junior who did the Blackburn Royal Commission. |
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| The Princess Royal, as Rear Admiral Chief Commandant for Women in the Royal Navy, took the salute at Horse Guards of the columns of ex-Servicemen and women marched past. |
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| The Royal Scots, the army's oldest regiment, is on precarious ground. |
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| Others can speak more authoritatively than I about the Royal Ballet. |
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| The captain of a Royal Navy aircraft carrier rededicated by the Queen Mother spoke yesterday of his admiration for her lifelong support for the service. |
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| She was taken to a police car and then up to Bradford Royal Infirmary. |
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| The award is presented annually to the Royal Navy ship, squadron or Royal Marines unit that is judged to have done most to project a positive image of the Senior Service. |
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| A maiden race winner on his debut last season, Moscow Ballet was beaten less than a length into second by Snow Ridge in the Royal Lodge Stakes at Ascot. |
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| As they approached the town square a guard of honour was provided by 20 veterans for groups including the Royal British Legion and Indian Ex-Servicemen. |
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| In 1755 he joined the Royal Navy, and within two years passed his master's examination to qualify for the navigation and handling of a royal ship. |
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| He jumps at the chance of working at the Royal Observatory in Australia. |
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| At least she made good on her promise to enroll in an acting class at rada, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. |
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| Tomlinson got to sample an early taste of Olympic glory on Wednesday night as West Van's Park Royal played host to the fifth annual North Shore Sport Awards. |
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| When her funeral took place at Leicester Cathedral on May 23, 1997, Royal Navy ratings acted as pall bearers and a Royal Marines bugler sounded the last post. |
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| My father was in the Air Raid Precautions unit and my mother in the Women's Royal Voluntary Service, my eldest sister in the WAAF and my middle sister in the Wrens. |
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| You'd be able to kayak to work, or maybe spend your Sunday wending your way through a small creek down from the top of Mount Royal through Westmount and into the East End. |
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| Unfortunately I got trapped behind Royal Rebel for a while, when he was on and off the bridle a bit, but five out I got on the tail of Westerner and followed him. |
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| Right on cue, as if to sanction a visit, ten choristers from the Royal Holloway Choir start to sing. |
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| The woman was later taken by ambulance to Bradford Royal Infirmary after a call was made to the emergency services by a relative from an address in the Leeds Road area. |
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| Despite government efforts, special inquiries, a Royal Commission, and rafts of good intentions, the problem of long term care for elderly people remains. |
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| This is something that even our august Royal Society has failed to grasp. |
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| Which is why the Royal Exchange decided to do it in rep with a Chekov. |
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| The German Air Force was regrouped during June and early July, to open the first stage of the invasion of Britain by destroying the Royal Air Force. |
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| She also subscribes to the talking book service run by the Royal National Institute of the Blind, where she can get complete, unabridged novels on audio tape. |
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| The last stamp shows the proud sailing ship Royal Merchant, one of three vessels that, in 1591, opens up the merchant route from England to India. |
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| The only major sea battle in World War began with fighting between Royal Navy squadrons of battle-cruisers under Beatty and a German squadron under Rear Admiral von Hipper. |
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| He had arrived on Malta in June 1942 as a 21-year-old aboard the fast minelayer HMS Welshman, having taken up a commission in the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm. |
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| By the end of the apprenticeship, war had broken out and Archie volunteered for the Royal Air Force, fibbing a little about his age, so that he could get in. |
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| Every leading Classical composer, through Brahms, always used the Lydian mode and its Mozart treatment of Bach's Royal Theme, as a reference point of composition. |
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| In March 1981 Conway was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London. |
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| In 1785 he and Boulton were elected fellows of the Royal Society. |
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| After four years of post-graduate studies and a year as a junior fellow at the Royal College of Music, Rachel now divides her time between teaching and performing. |
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| Up to 50,000 racegoers are expected to attend each day of Royal Ascot in York next year and the city's tourism and hospitality industry is gearing up. |
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| However in 1820 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and in the same year he was a major influence in founding the Royal Astronomical Society. |
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| As early as 1665 Robert Moray had announced that Robert Hooke had lectured for the Royal Society about providing the balance of a clock with a spring. |
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| If you are interested in military history the Royal Armouries Museum is worth a visit and if you fancy a trip out of town, Castle Howard is within easy reach. |
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| As an undergraduate I had a number of little jobs, as a waiter and barman, and I enrolled as a midshipman in the Royal Naval Reserve at weekends and holidays. |
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| The oldest Rolls-Royce in the Royal fleet is a 1950 Phantom IV, with a massive 5.76 liter engine. |
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| Ralph arrived with French and Yiddish, learned English, began studies at the lse, and served in the Royal Navy. |
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| Varun, the mythical wind god obliged and a moderate 10-15 knot northerly, clear skies and a short chop greeted the fleets at the Royal Cliff start line. |
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| Champagne, fine wines, smoked salmon and strawberries have been wolfed down in staggering quantities during the five-day Royal Ascot at York festival. |
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| Understandably, the Royal Society of Chemistry has just honoured Holmes with a fellowship, the first time an imaginary character is being recognised. |
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| Bred by Devonia Stud, Royal Dragon was held up early in the one-mile turf contest but was able to range up into contention more than one furlong from the wire. |
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| A superior service, such as the Royal Mail's special delivery, which applies to packages weighing between 0.5kg and 2kg, may be cheaper than recorded delivery. |
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| The former Army colour sergeant who has served in the Middle and Far East with the Royal Marines and Royal Military Police, is not easily shocked. |
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| Despite all this, Andrew still allows the spendthrift Fergie, NFI at the Royal Wedding, to live with him when she is England. |
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| With a blast of bagpipes, the 78th Fraser Highlanders march out a side door, Scottish backswords raised, and solemnly lead His Royal Highness into the Winter Garden Show. |
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| The show was set in fictional Trinity College and filmed at Royal Holloway, University of London. |
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| The day began early at the Royal Golf Course where competitors teed off. |
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| They will be joined later this week by 800 Royal Marines on the new helicopter assault ship Ocean, which has set sail with a flotilla of three support ships and a frigate. |
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| The York branch of the Royal Air Force Association is appealing for new members to join its ranks to help support former airmen during difficult times. |
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| Big Screen Birmingham airs the live event from the Royal Albert Hall. |
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| In February 1843 MacCullagh was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. |
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| A Royal Navy Pilot sits inside a Lynx helicopter at RAF Odiham air base today ahead of a rehearsal for a Diamond Jubilee flypast. |
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| The announcement brings to an end months of speculation over the future of next year's Royal meeting, following York's successful staging of the event. |
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| One cold night, Isabel finds an old Royal Air Force greatcoat in the cupboard and pulls it into bed to warm herself. |
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| The two concertos feature wind players from Beecham's Royal Philharmonic. |
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| On the north-east coast, Royal Findhorn Yacht Club's race officials were thwarted by unfavourable tides and dying wind for day one of their dinghy regatta. |
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| Hardened Royal Marines were reduced to tears yesterday as the funeral of Yorkshire war hero Christopher Maddison was held with full military honours. |
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| He served in World War I in the Royal Flying Corps and the 16th Lancers. |
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| Next it was a stagger up Digbeth High Street to the Royal George. |
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| Bob, himself a former soldier with 2 Signal Regiment based at Imphal Barracks in York, said his son was a lance corporal in the Royal Logistics Corps, working as a chef. |
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| He spent most of the war training on HMS Worcester, based at Greenhithe on the Thames, but in March 1918 he was drafted into the Royal Naval Reserve as a midshipman. |
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| Later that night, when taken to Manchester Royal Infirmary for treatment to a hand, she was not psychiatrically assessed despite her agitated condition and was allowed home. |
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| He spent the war years as a Regimental Officer, 9th Lancers, then, when invalided out in 1944, as instructor at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. |
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| The Royal Fleet Auxiliary was born exactly a century ago as the Admiralty sought to make the distinction between warships and the auxiliaries which supported the Royal Navy. |
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| She is one of eleven women who joined an eight-week program at the Royal Brisbane Hospital aimed at improving the fitness and well-being of breast cancer recoverers. |
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| She works as a nursing auxiliary at the Gloucester Royal Hospital. |
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| He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in India and Germany and then studied laryngology and otology at the Royal Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital in London. |
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| It's not exactly Vegas, but, Henry must well know, a sighting of the Royal Abs is likely to cause no little ripple interest. |
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| The greatcoat By Helen Dunmore A Royal Air Force coat leads a young bride into an affair with a long-dead ghost. |
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| Birmingham Royal Ballet returns on March 27-29 to perform the classic ballet Coppelia about a toymaker who dreams of bringing his favourite creation to life. |
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| The Royal Scots and the Black Watch are among other famous regiments facing the axe, while at least one of the two Gurkha battalions is likely to be wound up. |
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| He is one of the few jumps trainers to have enjoyed success on the Flat, landing several races at Royal Ascot as well as the Northumberland Plate and the Doncaster Cup. |
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| The Royal visit by the Earl and countess of Wessex to the territory raised tensions in Spain. |
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| Lambert clearly explains the ways in which solutions and makeshifts were developed to answer, in the time available, the problems that the Royal Navy faced. |
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| The coins were minted by the Royal Mint and are legal tender. |
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| Gwent Police, Royal Gwent Hospital, Coleg Gwent and the Newport Gwent Dragons rugby team. |
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| In 2015 Boyle was awarded an honorary doctorate in the field of music from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow. |
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| The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland unveiled the bid to help build the home for the colony of kings, rockhoppers and gentoos. |
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| When the monarch is not in residence the Union Flag, or in Scotland the ancient Royal Standard of Scotland, is flown. |
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| The forces of Royal Governor of Virginia William Berkeley captured the old warrior in 1646, variously thought to be between 90 and 100 years old. |
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| The arms in banner form serve as basis for the monarch's official flag, known as the Royal Standard. |
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| In Scotland, there exists a separate version of the Royal Arms, a variant of which is used by the Scotland Office. |
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| The monarch grant Royal Warrants to select businesses and tradespeople which supply the Royal Household with goods or services. |
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| This entitles those business to display the Royal Arms on their packaging and stationery by way of advertising. |
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| Later the trainees will be graduated as privates first class in the Royal Army of Oman. |
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| One we were more than happy to spot in the Royal Box was the never knowingly underdressed David Beckham. |
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| As the personal banner of the Sovereign, use of the Royal Banner of Scotland is restricted under the Act of the Parliament of Scotland 1672 cap. |
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| The Royal Standard of the United Kingdom used in Scotland, featuring the Royal Banner of Scotland in the first and fourth quarters. |
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| By the 1890s the shipyard was heavily engaged in the construction of warships for the Royal Navy and also for export. |
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| The Royal Standard of the United Kingdom used outwith Scotland, featuring the Royal Banner of Scotland in the second quarter. |
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| The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews is one of the oldest and most prestigious golf clubs in the world. |
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| The Royal Standard of Canada, featuring the Royal Banner of Scotland in the quartered arms contained in the first and second divisions. |
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| The racecourse is also home to Royal Ascot Cricket Club, which was founded in 1897 and their ground is situated in the middle of the racecourse. |
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| The new reverses of the 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p and 50p coins feature parts of the Royal Shield, and the new pound coin depicts the whole shield. |
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| Flogging was a common punishment in the Royal Navy, and came to be associated with the stereotypical hardiness of sailors. |
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| The Royal Standard of the United Kingdom used in Scotland is flown when the Sovereign is present. |
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| The teams competed in identical Sunfast 37 yachts with help from experienced skippers from the Royal Yacht Squadron. |
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| A NEW survivorship programme is now up and running at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary for patients recovering from bowel cancer. |
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| A Scottish surgeon in the Royal Navy, James Lind, was the first to prove it could be treated with citrus fruit in a 1753 publication. |
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| Resulting from the petition, in December 2012 the club was granted a Royal charter, two previous attempts having been unsuccessful. |
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| AoFor the past four decades the Royal Cavalry has had a central role in the development, protection and breeding of pure Arabian horses. |
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| The sophisticated lily beret has won the young Royal praise for a clever choice of a flattering and unfussy hat. |
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| Those Royal Marines that did reach the shore were either killed or captured. |
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| Two Royal Marine commandos from 539 Assault Squadron, based in Plymouth, and an Army signaller were also killed. |
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| The original Institute was based in New Cross at the former Royal Naval School building. |
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| Situated in Limewood Court, the house is within walking distance of the city centre, universities and the Royal Victoria Infirmary. |
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| Social clubs which have survived include the Hash House Harriers and the Royal Selangor. |
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| She spent several years in the UK as repetitor for The Birmingham Royal Ballet School and on staff at the Junior Conservatoire in Birmingham. |
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| It was full of dead Prussian Guards, big men, and dead Royal Welch Fusiliers and South Wales Borderers, little men. |
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| The Royal Library of Alexandria, in Alexandria, Egypt, was once the largest library in the world. |
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| They pronounced the idea impractical and advised their Royal Highnesses to pass on the proposed venture. |
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| At one stage the trade was the monopoly of the Royal Africa Company, operating out of London. |
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| The Corps Headquarters is at Dettingen House within Princess Royal Barracks in Deepcut near Camberley, Surrey. |
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| Sixteen Royal Navy crew died and a further 44 were wounded, although this information was not made public at the time. |
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| The standard was appropriated by the Normans during the 11th century, and used for the Royal Standard of Scotland. |
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| This was very expensive work that at this time was only commonly done to Royal Navy vessels. |
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| Most historians agree Sea Lion would have failed regardless, because of the weaknesses of German sea power compared to the Royal Navy. |
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| The Royal Courts of Justice in Chichester Street are home to Northern Ireland's Supreme Court. |
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| In 1969 Royal Mail relinquished control of postal services in the Bailiwick, with Guernsey then being recognised by the Universal Postal Union. |
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| The US Navy, French Navy, and the British Royal Navy operate only nuclear submarines, which is explained by the need for distant operations. |
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| In commemoration of the tree's significance in British history, a number of places and things have been named after the Royal Oak. |
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| Edward, the Black Prince, wearing a surcoat emblazoned with the Royal Arms of England. |
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| The Royal Arms of England features on the tabard, the distinctive traditional garment of English officers of arms. |
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| Thomas Hawley, an English officer of arms, wearing a tabard emblazoned with the Royal Arms of England. |
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| The Royal Navy had lost no ships and casualties did not exceed 35 men killed, with about 40 wounded. |
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| Initially, he rowed at Southsea Rowing Club, while stationed in Portsmouth with the Royal Navy and at Auriol Rowing Club in Hammersmith. |
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| Between Didcot and Royal Wootton Bassett there are a series of passing loops lines to allow fast trains to overtake slower ones. |
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| In February 2015, Davies was announced as one of the first female members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews. |
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| On 29 September, the Royal Mail issued a set of four stamps commemorating the Ashes victory. |
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| Previously, players bowed or curtsied to members of the Royal Family seated in the Royal Box upon entering or leaving Centre Court. |
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| From 1837 until 1868 the Royal Academy was housed in the east wing of the building. |
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| In 2003, however, the President of the All England Club, His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, decided to discontinue the tradition. |
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| The Royal Ballet company is a multiple Laurence Olivier Award winning company. |
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| In 1960 he made his second appearance for the Royal Court company in Ionesco's absurdist play Rhinoceros. |
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| Under Monica Mason's inspired leadership The Royal Ballet has had a great ten years. |
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| Prior to the Second World War, members the Brigade of Guards and retired members of the Royal Artillery performed the role of stewards. |
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| His first choreography for the Royal Ballet, was Fleur de Peux, a solo work created in 2000 on Viviana Durante. |
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| Although a talented dancer, MacMillan is best known for his choreography, and particularly for his work with the Royal Ballet. |
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| On 16 May, Sutcliffe killed Vera Millward in an attack in the car park of Manchester Royal Infirmary. |
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| Westlake was among the Highlanders' recent shutout victims, having played to a scoreless tie against Royal last week. |
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| Ashton was appointed Artistic director of the Royal Ballet from 1963 to 1970, when he retired from the post. |
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| Named by the Princess Royal on 4 July 2016, Red Jet 6 entered service later in the summer. |
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| And the new module, which starts in October, is based on standards drawn up between BACN and the Royal College of Nursing. |
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| Final preparation was done at the microvertebrate laboratory of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. |
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| He also created the ballet brainstate in 2001, as a collaboration between the Royal Ballet and his own company, Random Dance. |
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| The Royal Ballet employs approximately 100 dancers and a complete list is shown below. |
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| A Royal Commission inquiry found that the trusses were made of cast iron beams that had inadequate strength for their purpose. |
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| It's definitely not the scot-free bankers and the Royal Mailprivatising Tory larcenists. |
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| Blake became a friend of John Flaxman, Thomas Stothard and George Cumberland during his first year at the Royal Academy. |
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| On 8 October 1779, Blake became a student at the Royal Academy in Old Somerset House, near the Strand. |
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| The work was presented by the Royal Philharmonic Society, with Kreisler and the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the composer. |
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| Thomas Sprat wrote his History of the Royal Society in 1667 and set forth, in a single document, the goals of empirical science ever after. |
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| Many Academicians are involved in teaching in the schools and giving lectures as part of the Royal Academy Education Programme. |
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| After leaving the Royal Academy, Rossetti studied under Ford Madox Brown, with whom he retained a close relationship throughout his life. |
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| In Sprat's account, the Royal Society explicitly rejected anything that seemed like scholasticism. |
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| The Queen's Cup was presented to the Royal Southampton Yacht Club by Queen Victoria in 1897, her Diamond Jubilee year. |
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| In June 2015 soldiers from the 3rd Battalion The Royal Welsh provided the Tower of London detachment of the Queen's Guard. |
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| The following is a list of units of the Gurkhas and Royal Marines to have mounted the Queen's Guard since the Second World War. |
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| Biscuits remained an important part of the Royal Navy sailor's diet until the introduction of canned foods. |
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| For the 2012 Olympics, the Royal Mint has produced a 50p coin showing a horse jumping a fence. |
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| A mounted rider from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is featured on a 1973 Canadian quarter dollar coin. |
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