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Oddly enough, without doing so on purpose, my body woke itself at precisely 5am, just in time to fix some coffee and get the big screen HDTV working...
It was absolutely magnificent. Even more impressive to than the pipe organ (which was indeed glorious!) was the combined men and boys choir of Westminster Abbey. To my ear, nothing can equal the crystal clear purity of a boy soprano's voice for sheer angelic quality.
I was quite surprised that Prince William chose to wear the Irish Guard dress uniform however, instead of the expected Air Force dress uniform. Perhaps because he's merely a 2nd Lt. in the AF, but a colonel in the Irish Guard?
More likely because with the rather pathetic number of medals (1) which is nothing much to brag on*, aside from the huge star of the Order of the Garter and the sash, the AF dress uniform is rather boring and bland.
The crimson dress blouse of the Irish Guards with all of the gold bullion and assorted doo-dads on the other hand is quite dashing!
It all gets rather confusing, since both princes are commissioned officers of all three forces, with different ranks in each!
* The Queen's Jubilee medal was awarded to ~72,000 folks after all!
Even Prince Harry only had his Jubilee medal and the Afganistan Campaign medal, the latter of which is nothing much either, being nothing but an "I was there" award.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/0430/1224295763062.html
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He's actually a Flt Lt in the RAF these days, which is equivalent to an Army Captain/Navy Lieutenant. Personally I thought he made a good call on the uniform choice, no one should be seen in polite society wearing the shocking excuse for a uniform the RAF use.
I may be in one of the other two services...
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I think his choice was brilliant myself! It occurred to me early this morning that I may have given the impression that I was making fun of his lack of honors.
In fact, it's quite the opposite! I think it is a mark of his basic humility that he chooses to wear only those awards that are personally earned, instead of decorating himself with a bunch of gee-gaws like some other "royals" from third-world countries do.
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It's interesting coming from the UK and doing joint ops with the US in that we have a different approach to medals. In the US you seem to get them for turning up to work almost whereas in the UK apart from campaign medals they're only handed out for doing something fairly brave/stupid.
However when I was in Iraq last year I was working with a USN Commander*, and he said it was an easy way of seeing how someone's career had progressed and if they'd done everything you'd expect by that stage. Obviously a different way of doing things but not without its merits.
Personally my favourite medal story involves Cdr Christopher Wrenford-Brown** who was at a reception in Washington in the late '80s. Various military personnel were there, mostly US with rows of ribbons etc. Someone asked the UK ambassador who the RN chap was and why he only had two medals to which the reply was along the lines of 'Oh the first one was for going to the Falklands and the second one was for sinking a cruiser. Old one of yours actually'.
*Who'd actually been the exchange instructor at Dartmouth when I went through bizarrely.
**Met him at Dartmouth as well when he came to give a talk, thoroughly nice chap and ended up managing a zoo.