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1 MARCH 2023 || 1st Battalion Welsh Guards St. David's Day Parade
The Prince and Princess of Wales visited the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards at Combermere Barracks in Windsor for the St David’s Day Parade.
This was William's first visit in his new role as Colonel of the Welsh Guards. During the visit he presented Leeks (the National emblem of Wales) to officers and guardsmen who in turn issued it along the ranks and took the Royal Salute.
Catherine was also presented with her own Leek emblem. She spent time chatting with the families of the troops and was 'super impressed' when nine-year-old Thomas Lucas performed an impromptu backflip as she was talking to the children.
William praised the Welsh Guards as a ‘formidable group of soldiers’ and expressed his father’s ‘fierce pride and admiration’ for the Regiment during his speech.
The Prince and Princess later spent time with the Welsh Guardsmen and their families. They also met men and women from the Australian Army who are based in the UK to help train Ukrainian soldiers.
