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ADJUTANT GENERAL’S CORPS
25th ANNIVERSARY
An Audience With

Her Majesty The Queen

By Warrant Officer Class 1 Carol Manifold

The Queen’s Engagements for Thursday 8th June 2017

Corps Sergeant Major – Warrant Officer Class One Ben Culleton with Warrant Officer Class One Carol Manifold and
Provost Sergeant Major – Warrant Officer Class One Marc Thomson outside Buckingham Palace

In order to celebrate the The Phone Call Preparation
25th Anniversary of the
Corps, Her Majesty the During what I consider an ordinary In preparation for the day everyone
submitted a biography and, of course,
day in the life of a Divisional Visiting
Queen was invited to join Warrant Officer, ploughing through a ensured our uniforms were pressed and
us in the celebrations torrent of emails, I received a call from polished to the highest order. Potential
topics for discussion were forwarded,
the Corps Sergeant Major, Warrant
at Worthy Down. Officer Class One Ben Culleton, asking via Regimental Headquarters, to
Unfortunately, Her Majesty about my availability on the 8th of Buckingham Palace to be cleared before
was unable to attend, but June. Thank goodness my automatic our visit.
reply was “I’m free Ben, how can I
she was gracious enough to help you?” You can only imagine how The Arrival
invite eight personnel from delighted I was when he informed
me that I had been one of the eight
across the Corps to have a personnel from across the Corps to be The team assembled at Worthy Down
and drove to London, where we checked
private audience with her selected to have a private audience with into Wellington Barracks. It felt very
at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty The Queen at Buckingham surreal to me, to be sleeping in a room
Palace.
which had the Quartermaster’s issued
green plastic army mattresses and
artex ceiling, sharing with the Corps

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