When Prince Philip came to Salisbury to accept Freedom of the City
Freedom of the City ceremony on the Choristers Green. Inset: Prince Philip and Jeremy Nettle ON OCTOBER 16, 2004, His Royal Highness Prince Philip came to Salisbury. The occasion was the granting to Salisbury’s county regiment – the 1st Battalion the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire & Wiltshire Regiment – of Freedom of the City, which began with a formal civic ceremony outside the regiment’s museum at The Wardrobe, in the Cathedral Close. The then 83-year-old Duke of Edinburgh, dressed in his uniform as colonel-in-chief of the regiment, was met at The Wardrobe by the Lord Lieute...
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