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...There was a widely distributed picture in Britain of Regimental Sergeant Major Laurie Ashbridge sipping from a mug of hot tea handed him by some smiling San Carlos women and children, shown leaning on a fence. When Ashbridge's wife Mandy saw the picture at her home in Tidworth, Hampshire, she remarked, "He never says no to a nice cuppa. "Tractors and Land Rovers have been offered freely to the troops to lug equipment to nearby hills. An 18-year-old boy used his father's tractor to haul gear from the shore. Another boy told the soldiers...
When the horse Purple Star stumbled on a double jump and sent Princess Anne somersaulting to the ground, the air turned blue. "I saw bloody stars," exclaimed the shaken princess at the army horse trials in Tidworth, Wiltshire. Queen Elizabeth probably saw stars over her daughter's second public "bloody" in two months...
...Duke is said to be an even better driver than the Duke of Kent. At the Tidworth Tattoo, during an episode contrasting the modern motor bandit with Dick Turpin, the Duke drove the pursuing car. The thousands of spectators present cheered him wildly for his skill and speed, but not one of them guessed the identity of the driver...
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