King Charles has handed over the role of Colonel-in-Chief of the Army Air Corps to Prince William in a ceremony in Hampshire. It comes just two weeks after the King returned to public duties following his cancer diagnosis. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:53 I did just want to say what a great joy it is to be with you, even briefly, on this occasion.
01:01 But also, tinged with great sadness after 32 years of knowing you all
01:08 and admiring all your many activities and your achievements throughout the time
01:14 that I've been lucky enough to be Colonel-in-Chief of the Army Air Corps.
01:20 And of course, all that time on operations in Iraq and Afghanistan,
01:27 I watched with, again, immense admiration for what you did and managed to do out there.
01:37 And of course, with this remarkable Apache here,
01:42 I remember I think I probably was taken up in one of these ones all those years ago.
01:48 And I shall never forget it, nor will I forget the fact that when I first became Colonel-in-Chief,
01:54 you still had quite a few fixed-wing aircraft, one or two of which I flew in,
02:00 along with some rather ancient helicopters.
02:03 So all I can say is that having had the pleasure of knowing you for so long,
02:09 I do hope you'll go from strength to strength in the future
02:13 with the Prince of Wales as your new Colonel-in-Chief.
02:17 The great thing is he's a very good pilot indeed, so that's encouraging.
02:23 So look after yourselves, and I can't tell you how proud it has made me
02:29 to have been involved with you all this time.
02:32 Thank you.
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