I like to think I worked pretty hard to get both my FAA wings and the stripes she sports and I really object to some fatuous, self-promoting parasite thinking she has the right and qualifications to wear them.
- Pontius
However there is one common thread running through the LAA,HCAP,The Royal Naval Reserve, Tracey Curtis Taylor and her Honorary Lt Commander award and the picture below.
The Queen's cousin Prince Michael has influence?
- Jay Sata
I couldn't agree more with Pontius, BEagle et al, but there is an additional common thread, and one which suggests that Prince Michael must have
some influence because, whilst both hold ranks in the Royal Naval Reserve,
neither TCT
nor he is strictly qualified to wear FAA wings. In fact, although he has not completed any formal Service flying qualification of which I am aware, the photographs at
https://uk.images.search.yahoo.com/y....zen._.0816tb2 seem to indicate that he happily wears the flying badge of all three Services when in uniform, even though his own official website cannot spell "Air Marshal" correctly.
Birds of a feather?
Interestingly enough by comparison, and again so far as I am aware, not even his kinsman, HRH The Duke of Cambridge, wears anything other than the RAF wings to which he is fully entitled, when in both RAF and Army uniform, and has never worn the Royal Navy or Army wings which I am sure both Services would be more more than happy for him to wear.
Jack