Her Royal Highness the Queen My condolences and kindest sympathy.
To the Royal family and to members of both the commonwealth and to all Duke of Edinburgh members far and wide.
Thank you.

When given the opportunity to be part of the award, I jumped!
The exercises and team challenges proved valuable credits to my future.
With planning my course, expedition and fieldwork plus with a volunteer charity placement all encouraged my curiosity to further be a lead in air training corp.
Many hours volunteering, training and further education in future years gave me fresh challenges and proved this was a good vocational starting choice.
My son is now part of this marvellous future, and is finding it rewarding and fun.