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Camilla inspects Royal Lancers for the first time
The Royal Lancers is an armoured reconnaissance regiment formed in 2015 when the 9th/12th Royal Lancers and The Queen's Royal Lancers were amalgamated. The words '(Queen Elizabeths' Own)' were ...
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How Queen Camilla's hero father earned his spurs with the Lancers
Major Shand, who died in June 2006, was commissioned into the 12th Royal Lancers in 1937 after graduating from Sandhurst. In 1940 he found himself in France facing the Germans in their drive ...