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A return to passenger supersonic flight is still many years off, if it ever happens. But you can pretend to fly at Mach speed now by seeing a Concorde in person.
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Prince Michael (b. 4 July 1942) is the younger brother of the Duke of Kent and paternal first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. As a five-year-old, he was a pageboy at the wedding of the then Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip. He was educated at Sunningdale School and Eton, before entering the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, during his life he has always been active in learning languages and is an accredited Russian interpreter as well as being fluent in French and having a working knowledge of German and Italian.
On leaving Sandhurst in 1961, he was commissioned into the 11
Prince Philip s love for Land Rovers endured for more than 70 years
Billed as the best 4x4 by far, British-built Land Rovers were part and parcel of the Duke of Edinburgh’s life both public and private
17 April 2021 • 7:47am
Were two British institutions ever more perfectly matched than the Royal Family and Land Rover? The two have become inextricably linked and it seems fitting that the Duke of Edinburgh’s coffin will be carried through the grounds of Windsor Castle in a modified Land Rover that he designed for the occasion himself.
The first Land Rover was sketched in the sand off Anglesey by Rover’s chief engineer Maurice Wilks on a summer holiday in 1947 with his brother Spencer, Rover’s managing director.