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His Royal Highness

The Prince of WalesUniversity of Bucharest

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Your Royal Highness,

Your very distant ancestors and ours, the Romans, used to markwith a white stone all estive days (albo lapillo notare diem). oday is one o

those happy days when the Senate o Bucharest University is assembled to

award you an honorary degree.

Te University o Bucharest, an offshoot and direct continuator o

Te Princely Academy o St. Sabba established in 1694, received university

status in 1864, which means that the entire academic community will be

celebrating in mid-July o this year its 150thanniversary as a ully-fledgedhigher education institution. Te University takes enormous, justified pride

in your gracious acceptance o an honorary doctorate. In this you have been

preceded by King Carol II o Romania in 1938, His Majesty King Michael

o Romania (October 2012) and King Simeon II o Bulgaria (November

2012). Among the recipient Heads o State and Government were the

President o Indonesia, Sukarno (1960), the Emperor o Ethiopia, Haile

Selassie (1964), the Shah o Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1966), thePresident o India, Shanker Dayal Sharma (1994, who, like yoursel, Royal

His Royal HighnessThe Prince of Wales

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In April 1962 Te Prince began his first term at Gordonstoun, aschool near Elgin in Eastern Scotland which Te Duke o Edinburgh hadattended.

Te Prince o Wales spent two terms in 1966 as an exchange studentat imbertop, a remote outpost o the Geelong Church o England GrammarSchool in Melbourne, Australia. When he returned to Gordonstoun or his final year, Te Princeo Wales was appointed school guardian (head boy). Te Prince, who hadalready passed six O Levels, also took A Levels and was awarded a gradeB in history and a C in French, together with a distinction in an optionalspecial history paper in July 1967.

Te Prince went to Cambridge University in 1967 to readarchaeology and anthropology at rinity College. He changed to history orthe second part o his degree, and in 1970 was awarded a 2:2 degree. He was invested as Prince o Wales by Te Queen on 1st July 1969in a colourul ceremony at Caernaron Castle. Beore the investiture TePrince had spent a term at the University College o Wales at Aberystwyth,learning to speak Welsh.

On 11th

February 1970, His Royal Highness took his seat in theHouse o Lords. On 8th March 1971 Te Prince flew himsel to Royal Air Force(RAF) Cranwell in Lincolnshire, to train as a jet pilot. At his own request,Te Prince had received flying instruction rom the RAF during his secondyear at Cambridge. In September 1971 afer the passing out parade at Cranwell, TePrince embarked on a naval career, ollowing in the ootsteps o his ather,

grandather and both his great-grandathers. Te six-week course at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, wasollowed by service on the guided missile destroyer HMS Norolk and tworigates. Te Prince qualified as a helicopter pilot in 1974 beore joining 845Naval Air Squadron, which operated rom the Commando carrier HMSHermes. On 9thFebruary 1976, Te Prince took command o the coastal

minehunter HMS Bronington or his last nine months in the Navy. On 29thJuly 1981, Te Prince o Wales married Lady Diana Spencer

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in St Pauls Cathedral who became Her Royal Highness Te Princess oWales. Te Princess was born on 1stJuly 1961, at Park House on Te Queens

estate at Sandringham, Norolk. She lived there until the death in 1975 oher grandather, the 7thEarl, when the amily moved to the Spencer amilyseat at Althorp House in Northamptonshire. Lady Dianas ather, then Viscount Althorp and later the eighthEarl Spencer, had been an equerry to both George VI and Te Queen. Hermaternal grandmother, Ruth, Lady Fermoy, was a close riend and lady inwaiting to Te Queen Mother. Te Prince and Princess o Wales had two sons: Prince William,

born on 21stJune 1982; and Prince Harry, born on 15thSeptember 1984. From the time o their marriage, Te Prince and Princess o Waleswent on overseas tours and carried out many engagements together in theUK. On 9thDecember 1992, Te Prime Minister, John Major, announcedto the House o Commons that Te Prince and Princess o Wales had agreedto separate.

Te marriage was dissolved on 28th

August, 1996. Te Princesswas still regarded as a member o the Royal Family. She continued to liveat Kensington Palace and to carry out her public work or a number ocharities. When Te Princess was killed in a car crash in Paris on 31st August1997, Te Prince o Wales flew to Paris with her two sisters to bring herbody back to London. Te Princess lay in the Chapel Royal at St JamessPalace until the night beore the uneral.

On the day o the uneral, Te Prince o Wales accompanied his twosons, aged 15 and 12 at the time, as they walked behind the coffin rom TeMall to Westminster Abbey. With them were Te Duke o Edinburgh andTe Princesss brother, Earl Spencer.

Te Prince o Wales asked the media to respect his sons privacy,to allow them to lead a normal school lie. In the ollowing years, PrincesWilliam and Harry, who are second and ourth in line to the throne,

accompanied their ather on a limited number o official engagements inthe UK and abroad.

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On 9thApril 2005, Te Prince o Wales and Mrs Parker Bowles weremarried in a civil ceremony at the Guildhall, Windsor. Afer the wedding, Mrs Parker Bowles became known as Her Royal

Highness Te Duchess o Cornwall. Te Prince o Wales and Te Duchess o Cornwall were joinedby around 800 guests at a Service o Prayer and Dedication at St GeorgesChapel, Windsor Castle. Te Service was ollowed by a reception at Windsor Castle hostedby Her Majesty Te Queen. It is intended that Te Duchess o Cornwallshould use the title Her Royal Highness Te Princess Consort when TePrince o Wales accedes to Te Trone.

Te Duchess supports Te Prince o Wales in his work. Troughthe years, His Royal Highness developed a wide range o interests whichare today reflected in Te Princes Charities, a group o not-or-profitorganisations o which Te Prince o Wales is Patron or President. Te group is the largest multi-cause charitable enterprise in theUnited Kingdom, raising over 100 million annually. Te organisations areactive across a broad range o areas including education and young people,

environmental sustainability, the built environment, responsible businessand enterprise and international.Te charities reflect Te Prince o Waless long-term and innovative

perspective, and seek to address areas o previously unmet need. Tese interests are also reflected in the list o more than 400organisations o which His Royal Highness is Patron or President. Te Princes interest in fields such as the built environment, globalsustainability, youth opportunity, education and aith have been elaborated

over many years in a large number o speeches and articles. In 1998, His Royal Highness Te Prince o Wales paid the first o

his annual visits to Romania. Te media reported the event as the first

visit by a Prince o Wales to this country. Well, they were wrong. A couple

o years later, I was able to give an unofficial academic denial in an article

published in book orm by Humanitas Publishing House along with other

articles contributed by Romanian and British colleagues, dealing with the

inception o English studies in Romania and o Romanian studies in theUK. Te book, titledMutual Understanding. 125 Years of Anglo-Romanian

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Relations, was presented at a Symposium hosted by the British Library in

London on 12thOctober 2005, with the support o the Romanian Embassy.

Te first ever visit to Romania by an heir apparent to the British Crown

took place in late October 1888. Te highly distinguished visitor wasEdward, Prince o Wales and uture king o Great Britain and Emperor

o India as Edward VII. He spent one day in Bucharest and several days

at Pele Castle in the Carpathians, the summer residence o King Carol I

and Queen Elizabeth, afer which he departed by train to Gheorghieni, in

ransylvania, to meet Crown Prince Rudol o Austria-Hungary or a bear

hunting-party in the mountains.

It is known worldwide that His Royal Highness owns a ew ruralproperties in ransylvania, including one at Viscri, in Braov County.

Viscri (German Weisskirch) is almost twice as old as Bucharest, having

been settled shortly afer 1162 by Saxon, Flemish, Luxembourger and

Wallon colonisers (called collectively alii Flandrenses) sent by King Gza II

o Hungary. Te village, with its 12thcentury old ortified church, is one o

seven localities in ransylvania on the UNESCO World Heritage Site List.

His Royal Highness Te Prince o Wales, a great lover o architecture (as

witnessed by his bookA Vision of Britain: A Personal View of Architecture)

has set a personal example to the entire world o how old buildings can be

restored and conserved without spoiling the environment.

Recalling Poloniuss wordsBrevity is the soul of wit (Hamlet, Act

II, scene 2), I will conclude by saying that His Royal Highness has a magic

wand which he wields marvellously: he manages to be in ransylvania even

when he is in London. Exactly a ortnight ago, on 15thMay, he attended at

No.1 Belgrave Square the Festival of Transylvania, a cultural event organizedjointly by the Romanian Embassy and the Romanian Cultural Institute in

London. Te event was calculated to celebrate the natural beauties and the

old traditions o ransylvania as seen through the eyes o contemporary

British artists.

Since 1998, His Royal Highness has put Romania back on the map o

Europe, where she used to hold a place o honour in the concert o European

nations, especially in the times o Queen Marie, his great-great aunt. Byoffering him an honorary degree, the University o Bucharest is honouring


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itsel. By accepting the Degree, His Royal Highness has implicitly

acknowledged his perect awareness o our love and admiration or him.

Your Royal Highness,

As a token o recognition o your exceptional lie and work

dedicated to the British race, the British Commonwealth o Nations

and the world at large, and epitomized in the motto Ich dien(I serve)

on your badge that ully entitle you to say, echoing the poet, Exegi

monumentum aere perennius, the Senatus Academicus and the Rector

Magnificus are justly proud to coner upon you the academic degree oDoctor Honoris Causa. Dignus est intrare in nostrum doctum corpus.

Plaudite, cives!

Written and spoken on behal o the University Senate by Proessor

Emeritus Adrian Nicolescu, ormally Vice-Rector in charge o doctorates and

research, this day o 31stMay 2014.


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Biography

Te Prince o Wales, eldest son o Te Queen and Prince Philip,Duke o Edinburgh, was born at Buckingham Palace at 9.14 pm on 14thNovember 1948. A proclamation was posted on the Palace railings just beore

midnight, announcing that Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth hadbeen saely delivered o a son. It was announced later that the baby Princeweighed 7lb 6oz. On 15thDecember, Charles Philip Arthur George was christened inthe Music Room at Buckingham Palace, by the Archbishop o Canterbury,Dr Geoffrey Fisher. Te Princes mother was proclaimed Queen Elizabeth II at the age

o 25, when her ather, King George VI, died aged 56 on 6

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February 1952.On Te Queens accession to the throne, Prince Charles as the Sovereignseldest son became heir apparent at the age o three. Te Prince, as Heir to Te Trone, took on the traditional titles oTe Duke o Cornwall under a charter o King Edward III in 1337; and, inthe Scottish peerage, o Duke o Rothesay, Earl o Carrick, Baron Renrew,Lord o the Isles, and Prince and Great Steward o Scotland. Te Prince was our at his mothers Coronation, in Westminster

Abbey on 2ndJune 1953. Many who watched the Coronation have vividmemories o him seated between his widowed grandmother, now to be

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known as Queen Elizabeth Te Queen Mother, and his aunt, PrincessMargaret. Te Queen and Te Duke o Edinburgh decided that Te Prince

should go to school rather than have a tutor at the Palace. Te Princestarted at Hill House school in West London on 7thNovember 1956. Afer 10 months, the young Prince became a boarder at CheamSchool, a preparatory school in Berkshire. In 1958 while Te Princewas at Cheam, Te Queen created him Te Prince o Wales and Earl oChester. Te Prince was nine-years-old. In April 1962 Te Prince began his first term at Gordonstoun,a school near Elgin in Eastern Scotland which Te Duke o Edinburgh

had attended. Te Prince o Wales spent two terms in 1966 as an exchangestudent at imbertop, a remote outpost o the Geelong Church oEngland Grammar School in Melbourne, Australia. When he returned to Gordonstoun or his final year, Te Princeo Wales was appointed school guardian (head boy). Te Prince, whohad already passed six O Levels, also took A Levels and was awarded a

grade B in history and a C in French, together with a distinction in anoptional special history paper in July 1967. Te Prince went to Cambridge University in 1967 to readarchaeology and anthropology at rinity College. He changed to historyor the second part o his degree, and in 1970 was awarded a 2:2 degree. He was invested as Prince o Wales by Te Queen on 1st July1969 in a colourul ceremony at Caernaron Castle. Beore the investitureTe Prince had spent a term at the University College o Wales at

Aberystwyth, learning to speak Welsh. On 11thFebruary 1970, His Royal Highness took his seat in theHouse o Lords. On 8thMarch 1971 Te Prince flew himsel to Royal Air Force(RAF) Cranwell in Lincolnshire, to train as a jet pilot. At his own request,Te Prince had received flying instruction rom the RAF during hissecond year at Cambridge.

In September 1971 afer the passing out parade at Cranwell,Te Prince embarked on a naval career, ollowing in the ootsteps o his


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ather, grandather and both his great-grandathers. Te six-week course at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, wasollowed by service on the guided missile destroyer HMS Norolk and

two rigates. Te Prince qualified as a helicopter pilot in 1974 beore joining845 Naval Air Squadron, which operated rom the Commando carrierHMS Hermes. On 9thFebruary 1976, Te Prince took command o thecoastal minehunter HMS Bronington or his last nine months in theNavy. On 29th July 1981, Te Prince o Wales married Lady DianaSpencer in St Pauls Cathedral who became Her Royal Highness Te

Princess o Wales. Te Princess was born on 1st July 1961, at Park House on TeQueens estate at Sandringham, Norolk. She lived there until the deathin 1975 o her grandather, the 7thEarl, when the amily moved to theSpencer amily seat at Althorp House in Northamptonshire. Lady Dianas ather, then Viscount Althorp and later the eighthEarl Spencer, had been an equerry to both George VI and Te Queen.

Her maternal grandmother, Ruth, Lady Fermoy, was a close riend andlady in waiting to Te Queen Mother. Te Prince and Princess o Wales had two sons: Prince William,born on 21stJune 1982; and Prince Harry, born on 15thSeptember 1984. From the time o their marriage, Te Prince and Princess oWales went on overseas tours and carried out many engagementstogether in the UK. On 9th December 1992, Te Prime Minister, John Major,

announced to the House o Commons that Te Prince and Princess oWales had agreed to separate. Te marriage was dissolved on 28thAugust, 1996. Te Princesswas still regarded as a member o the Royal Family. She continued to liveat Kensington Palace and to carry out her public work or a number ocharities. When Te Princess was killed in a car crash in Paris on 31st

August 1997, Te Prince o Wales flew to Paris with her two sisters tobring her body back to London. Te Princess lay in the Chapel Royal at


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St Jamess Palace until the night beore the uneral. On the day o the uneral, Te Prince o Wales accompanied histwo sons, aged 15 and 12 at the time, as they walked behind the coffin

rom Te Mall to Westminster Abbey. With them were Te Duke oEdinburgh and Te Princesss brother, Earl Spencer.

Te Prince o Wales asked the media to respect his sons privacy,to allow them to lead a normal school lie. In the ollowing years, PrincesWilliam and Harry, who are second and ourth in line to the throne,accompanied their ather on a limited number o official engagements inthe UK and abroad. On 9thApril 2005, Te Prince o Wales and Mrs Parker Bowles

were married in a civil ceremony at the Guildhall, Windsor. Afer the wedding, Mrs Parker Bowles became known as HerRoyal Highness Te Duchess o Cornwall. Te Prince o Wales and Te Duchess o Cornwall were joinedby around 800 guests at a Service o Prayer and Dedication at St GeorgesChapel, Windsor Castle. Te Service was ollowed by a reception at Windsor Castle hosted

by Her Majesty Te Queen. It is intended that Te Duchess o Cornwallshould use the title Her Royal Highness Te Princess Consort when TePrince o Wales accedes to Te Trone. Te Duchess supports Te Prince o Wales in his work. Troughthe years, His Royal Highness developed a wide range o interests whichare today reflected in Te Princes Charities, a group o not-or-profitorganisations o which Te Prince o Wales is Patron or President. Te group is the largest multi-cause charitable enterprise in the

United Kingdom, raising over 100 million annually. Te organisationsare active across a broad range o areas including education and youngpeople, environmental sustainability, the built environment, responsiblebusiness and enterprise and international.

Te charities reflect Te Prince o Waless long-term and innovativeperspective, and seek to address areas o previously unmet need. Tese interests are also reflected in the list o more than 400

organisations o which His Royal Highness is Patron or President. Te Princes interest in fields such as the built environment,


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global sustainability, youth opportunity, education and aith have beenelaborated over many years in a large number o speeches and articles.

Education

On 10thMay 1955, Buckingham Palace announced that Te Princewould go to school, rather than have a private tutor, as had previous Heirsto Te Trone. Te Prince, who had received private tuition in the Palace nursery

or 18 months rom his governess Catherine Peebles, attended Hill HouseSchool in West London ull time rom 28thJanuary 1957. On 14th August 1957, Buckingham Palace announced that TePrince would attend Cheam, the preparatory school at Headley, nearNewbury, Berks, which had been attended by his ather rom 1930 to 1933.Te Prince began his first term on 23rdSeptember 1957. Te school days began at 7.15 am with the rising bell, prayers were

at 7.45, breakast was at 8 and lessons began at 9. Afer a 6 pm high tea,bedtime or the younger boys was 6.45 pm. During five years at Cheam, Te Prince played cricket or theFirst Eleven, joined in school games o ootball and rugby, and tookpart in amateur dramatics. He was appointed Head Boy in his final year.Te Prince had started his time at Cheam as the eight-year-old Duke oCornwall. He lef on 1st April 1962 as the 13-year-old Prince o Wales. Buckingham Palace announced on 23rd January 1962, that His

Royal Highness Te Prince o Wales would attend Gordonstoun, thepublic school on the shores o the Moray Firth in Scotland. Te Princesather, Te Duke o Edinburgh, had been among the first pupils when theschool was opened in 1934 by Dr Kurt Hahn. Dr Hahn had developed a regime ounded on belie in anegalitarian society, with firm principles o human conduct: the strongmust be courteous to the weak, and service to others is more important

than sel-service. On 1stMay 1962, Te Prince was taken to Gordonstoun by Te


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Duke o Edinburgh, who piloted a Heron o the Queens Flight romHeathrow to RAF Lossiemouth beore the final drive to the school. From February to July 1966, Te Prince o Wales spent two terms

at imbertop, a remote annexe o Geelong Church o England GrammarSchool in Melbourne, Australia. While attending imbertop, Te Prince joined in a school trip toPapua New Guinea, led by his history tutor Michael Persse. Afer seeingexamples o the olk art o the Papuan people, Te Prince expressedconcern in an essay that traditions there were being allowed to wither, atheme he took up later in his lie. When Te Prince returned to Gordonstoun or his final year, he

was made school guardian, or Head Boy and, afer years o communalliving, was given his own study bedroom. In March 1967 he played the Pirate King in a school production oGilbert and Sullivans Pirates o Penzance. Te Prince, the first Heir to Te Trone to sit public examinations,took his GCE O Levels at the age o 16, passing English language, Englishliterature, Latin, French and history and later mathematics.

He took his A Levels in July 1967, getting a B in history and a C inFrench, also gaining a distinction in an optional special paper in history. Te Prince went on to university, rather than straight into theArmed Forces, and in Autumn 1967 he arrived at rinity College,Cambridge. Te Princes grandather, King George VI, had studiedhistory, economics and civics or a year at the same college, romOctober 1919. Te Prince chose to take a first year course in archaeology and

physical and social anthropology and arrived at rinity College on 8th

October 1967. In March and April 1968, Te Prince o Wales spent timestudying archaeological sites in France and taking part in excavations inJersey. On 8thApril 1968, it was announced that Te Prince had decidedto change rom archaeology and anthropology to history rom the nextacademic year starting in October.

In his first examination at Cambridge, the results o which werepublished on 14thJune 1968, Te Prince was awarded a 2:1 in the first part


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o the archaeology and anthropology exams. In April 1969, Te Prince o Wales lef Cambridge to spend a termat the University College o Wales in Aberystwyth, where he studied Welsh

and the history o the Principality. Te Prince lef the University College o Wales in June 1969,a week beore his Investiture as Prince o Wales by Te Queen atCaernaron on 1stJuly. As part o the social side o university lie, Te Prince joinedrinitys drama group, the Dryden Society, in November 1968 andappeared in two o the societys annual revues. In the 1970 revue, QuietFlows the Don, Te Prince played a sports commentator, an antiques

expert and a weather orecaster and in another, he played the part o achurch padre in the societys production o Joe Ortons black comedyErpingham Camp. On 10thMarch 1970, Te Prince flew rom Heathrow Airport tovisit New Zealand, Australia and Japan, returning on 15thApril in timeor the start o his final term at rinity. Other royal duties during TePrinces final year at Cambridge included attending the State Opening

o Parliament, being ormally introduced into the House o Lords andattending his first Privy Council. On 12th May 1970, Te Prince o Wales raised in public someo his concerns about the environment and conservation, which wereto remain central to his thinking over the coming decades. In his debutat a Cambridge Union debate, he spoke to the motion that Tis housebelieves that technological advance threatens the individuality o man andis becoming his master.

Te Prince made it clear that he was not ormally or or againstthe motion. I am in a slightly difficult position, he said. He expressedconcern at the extent to which people had become creatures o technology,and o the pollution which could be the result, and suggested there wassometimes a need or the purpose o new developments to be questioned. On 23rdJune 1970, Te Prince o Wales the first Heir to TeTrone ever to take a degree was awarded a 2:2.

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Military Career

On 16thJune 2012, Her Majesty Te Queen appointed Te Prince

o Wales honorary five-star rank in all three services. Te appointmentrecognises the dedicated support o Hir Royal Highness to Te Queen,in her role as Commander-in-Chie. Te Prince o Wales is Admiral o the Fleet, Field Marshal andMarshal o the Royal Air Force. His Royal Highness began his career in the Armed Services inMarch 1971, when he started a our-month attachment with the Royal

Air Force at Cranwell, Lincolnshire. Te Prince had already gained his private pilots licence, andflew himsel to Cranwell on 8th March, in a twin-engined Basset o TeQueens Flight, to start advanced training to qualiy as a jet pilot. Flight Lieutenant Te Prince o Wales was awarded his RAFwings at Cranwell on 20thAugust 1971. On 15thSeptember, Te Prince joined the Royal Naval College,Dartmouth, under the graduate entry scheme, as Acting Sub-Lieutenant.

Te Duke o Edinburgh, and his great-uncle, Lord Mountbatten, hadboth been at Dartmouth. Nearly two months later, Te Prince flew in a troop-carryingRAF Britannia to join the destroyer HMS Norolk at Gibraltar. Whiletraining or his bridge watch-keeping certificate, Te Prince attended aone-day course in escaping rom a submarine, at HMS Dolphin, Gosport.Tis included an exercise during which he was released rom a chamber

100 f below the surace o a water tank. In February 1972, Te Princeattended a one-day course in the submarine HMS Churchill. During the next two and a hal years, Te Prince attended a our-month course at Portsmouth and served on our more ships. A 1974Pacific voyage on the rigate HMS Jupiter included calls at Singapore, NewZealand, onga, Western Samoa, Honolulu, San Francisco, Acapulcoand Bermuda. On 1stMay 1973, Te Prince o Wales was promoted toActing Lieutenant.

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845 Naval Air Squadron as a pilot on board the commando carrier HMSHermes. Following a lieutenants course at the Royal Naval College,

Greenwich, Te Prince was given command o his own ship, theminehunter HMS Bronington, or the final ten months o his activeservice in the Royal Navy, ending on 15thDecember 1976. Te ollowing January he was promoted to the rank oCommander. He was promoted again, on his 40thbirthday in 1988, toCaptain in the Royal Navy and Group Captain in the Royal Air Force. On 14thNovember 1998, the Ministry o Deence announcedthat Te Prince o Wales had been promoted to 2-star Rank in all

three Services o the Armed Forces to coincide with his 50th birthday. His Royal Highness was again promoted in all three Services onhis 54thbirthday in 2002, becoming Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy, AirMarshal in the Royal Air Force and Lieutenant General in the Army. In 2006, Te Prince was promoted to Admiral in the Royal Navy,General in the Army and Air Chie Marshal in the Royal Air Force. Te Prince o Wales holds honorary rank and appointments in

many branches and regiments o the Armed Services. On being appointed Colonel-in-Chie o the Parachute Regiment,a ew months beore he was 30, Te Prince asked to take part in theparachute training course. Te Prince elt he could not look them in the eye or wear theParachute Regiments amous beret and wings badge unless he had donethe course, he told his biographer, Jonathan Dimbleby, 15 years later. I elt I should lead rom the ront or at least be able to do some o

the things that one expects others to do or the country, said Te Prince. By the time he lef in 1977, His Royal Highness had completedmore than five years active service in the Royal Navy. By joining Te Royal Navy, His Royal Highness was ollowingin the ootsteps o his ather, Te Duke o Edinburgh, grandather, KingGeorge VI and two great-grandathers. Te Prince joined the RoyalNaval College, Dartmouth, in September 1971 and nearly two months

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The Romanian legacy

in the vision of His

Royal Highness The

Prince of Wales

His Royal Highness Te Prince o Wales has a long-standing

interest in Romania and has visited the country regularly since his firstvisit in 1998. On his first visit to ransylvania, Te Prince was struck by thelegacy o this area. In 2006, Te Prince bought and renovated two housesin rural Romania to help protect the unique way o lie, which has existedor hundreds o years, through the promotion o sustainable tourism. He has said that he was particularly moved by the plight othe remarkable ortified Saxon villages in ransylvania, that were built

centuries ago by German settlers, who were encouraged to go there to helpwithstand artar and urkish invasions. Sadly, due to mass migration,many o these villages have ageing populations and are in decline. In addition, His Royal Highness Te Prince o Wales is apassionate believer that the unique landscape o Romania is not only oglobal importance but could, i managed in a sensitive and integratedway, make a substantial contribution to the countrys economic growth.


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