THE QUEEN ROYAL NAVY
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom ARMY
Colonel-in-Chief
The Life Guards; The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons); The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys); The Queen’s Royal Lancers; Royal Tank Regiment; Corps of Royal Engineers; Grenadier Guards; Coldstream Guards;
Scots Guards; Irish Guards; Welsh Guards; The Royal Regiment of Scotland; The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment (King’s, Lancashire and Border); The Royal Welsh; Adjutant General’s Corps; The Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry; The Governor General’s Horse Guards (of Canada); The King’s Own Calgary
Regiment (Royal Canadian Armoured Corps);
Canadian Military Engineers Branch; Royal 22e Regiment (of Canada); Governor General’s Foot Guards (of Canada); The Canadian Grenadier Guards;
Le Régiment de la Chaudière (of Canada); 2nd Battalion Royal New Brunswick Regiment (North Shore); 48th Highlanders of Canada; The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise’s); The Calgary Highlanders; Royal Australian Engineers; Royal Australian Infantry Corps; Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps; Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps; The Corps of Royal New Zealand Engineers; Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment; The Malawi Rifles; The Royal Malta Artillery
Affiliated Colonel-in-Chief The Queen’s Gurkha Engineers 30 The Royal Family
Captain-General
Royal Regiment of Artillery; The Honourable Artillery Company; Combined Cadet Force; Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery; Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery; Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery;
Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps Royal Colonel
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland
Patron
Royal Army Chaplains’ Department ROYAL AIR FORCE
Air Commodore-in-Chief
Royal Auxiliary Air Force; Royal Air Force Regiment;
Air Reserve of Canada; Royal Australian Air Force Reserve; Territorial Air Force (of New Zealand) Commandant-in-Chief
RAF College, Cranwell Royal Honorary Air Commodore
RAF Marham; 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force
PRINCE PHILIP, DUKE OF EDINBURGH ROYAL NAVY
Admiral of the Fleet
Admiral of the Fleet, Royal Australian Navy Admiral of the Fleet, Royal New Zealand Navy Admiral of the Royal Canadian Sea Cadets ROYAL MARINES
Captain-General ARMY Field Marshal
Field Marshal, Australian Military Forces Field Marshal, New Zealand Army Colonel-in-Chief
The Queen’s Royal Hussars (Queen’s Own and Royal Irish); The Rifles; Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers; Intelligence Corps; Army Cadet Force Association; The Royal Canadian Regiment; The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (Wentworth Regiment of Canada); The Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa; The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada; The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada; The Royal Canadian Army Cadets; The Royal Australian Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers; The Australian Army Cadet Corps
Colonel
Grenadier Guards Royal Colonel
The Highlanders, 4th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland
Honorary Colonel
City of Edinburgh University Officers’ Training Corps;
The Trinidad and Tobago Regiment Member
Honourable Artillery Company
ROYAL AIR FORCE Marshal of the Royal Air Force Marshal of the Royal Australian Air Force Marshal of the Royal New Zealand Air Force Air Commodore-in-Chief
Air Training Corps; Royal Canadian Air Cadets Honorary Air Commodore
RAF Kinloss
THE PRINCE OF WALES ROYAL NAVY
Admiral
Commodore-in-Chief
Royal Naval Command Plymouth ARMY
General Colonel-in-Chief
The Royal Dragoon Guards; The Parachute Regiment;
The Royal Gurkha Rifles; Army Air Corps; The Royal Canadian Dragoons; Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians); The Royal Regiment of Canada; Royal Winnipeg Rifles; Royal Australian Armoured Corps;
The Royal Pacific Islands Regiment; 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards; The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada; The Toronto Scottish Regiment (Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother’s Own); The Mercian Regiment
Royal Colonel
The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland; 51st Highland, 7th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland (Territorial Army)
Colonel
The Welsh Guards Royal Honorary Colonel
The Queen’s Own Yeomanry ROYAL AIR FORCE Air Chief Marshal Honorary Air Commodore
RAF Valley Air Commodore-in-Chief
Royal New Zealand Air Force Colonel-in-Chief
Air Reserve Canada
THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL ROYAL NAVY
Commodore-in-Chief
Naval Medical Services; Royal Naval Chaplaincy Services
ARMY Royal Colonel
4th Battalion The Rifles ROYAL AIR FORCE
Honorary AIr Commodore RAF Halton; RAF Leeming PRINCE WILLIAM OF WALES ROYAL NAVY
Lieutenant Commodore-in-Chief
Scotland Command; Submarines Command Military Ranks and Titles 31
ARMY Lieutenant
The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons)
ROYAL AIR FORCE Flight Lieutenant Honorary Air Commandant
RAF Coningsby
PRINCE HENRY OF WALES ROYAL NAVY
Commodore-in-Chief
Small Ships and Diving Command ARMY
Lieutenant
The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons)
ROYAL AIR FORCE Honorary Air Commandant
RAF Honington THE DUKE OF YORK ROYAL NAVY
Commander
Admiral of the Marine Society and Sea Cadets Rear Admiral
ARMY Colonel-in-Chief
The Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd, 87th and The Ulster Defence Regiment); 9th/12th Royal Lancers (The Prince of Wales’s); The Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland; The Yorkshire Regiment; Small Arms School Corps; The Queen’s York Rangers (First Americans); Royal New Zealand Army Logistics Regiment; The Royal Highland Fusiliers of Canada;
The Princess Louise Fusiliers (Canada) ROYAL AIR FORCE
Honorary Air Commodore RAF Lossiemouth THE EARL OF WESSEX ROYAL NAVY
Commodore-in-Chief Royal Fleet Auxiliary Patron
Royal Fleet Auxiliary Association ARMY
Colonel-in-Chief
Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment; Saskatchewan Dragoons
Royal Colonel
2nd Battalion, The Rifles Royal Honorary Colonel
Royal Wessex Yeomanry ROYAL AIR FORCE Honorary Air Commodore
RAF Waddington
THE COUNTESS OF WESSEX ARMY
Colonel-in-Chief
Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps; The Lincoln and Welland Regiment; South Alberta Light Horse Regiment
Royal Colonel
5th Battalion, The Rifles ROYAL AIR FORCE Honorary Air Commodore RAF Wittering
THE PRINCESS ROYAL ROYAL NAVY
Vice-Admiral (Chief Commandant for Women in the Royal Navy)
Commodore-in-Chief HM Naval Base Portsmouth ARMY
Colonel-in-Chief
The King’s Royal Hussars; Royal Corps of Signals;
Royal Logistic Corps; The Royal Army Veterinary Corps; 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise’s); Royal Newfoundland Regiment; Canadian Forces Communications and Electronics Branch; The Grey and Simcoe Foresters (Royal Canadian Armoured Corps); The Royal Regina Rifle Regiment; Canadian Forces Medical Branch; Royal Australian Corps of Signals; Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals; Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps
Affiliated Colonel-in-Chief
The Queen’s Gurkha Signals; The Queen’s Own Gurkha Transport Regiment
Royal Colonel
1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland; 52nd Lowland, 6th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland
Colonel
The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons)
Honorary Colonel
University of London Officers’ Training Corps Commandant-in-Chief
First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (Princess Royal’s Volunteer Corps)
ROYAL AIR FORCE Honorary Air Commodore
RAF Lyneham; University of London Air Squadron THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER
ARMY Colonel-in-Chief
The Royal Anglian Regiment; Royal Army Medical Corps; Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps Deputy Colonel-in-Chief
The Royal Logistic Corps Royal Colonel
6th Battalion, The Rifles 32 The Royal Family
Honorary Colonel
Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia) ROYAL AIR FORCE
Honorary Air Marshal Honorary Air Commodore
RAF Odiham; No. 501 (County of Gloucester) Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force
THE DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER ARMY
Colonel-in-Chief
Royal Army Dental Corps; Royal Australian Army Educational Corps; Royal New Zealand Army Educational Corps; Canadian Forces Dental Services Deputy Colonel-in-Chief
Adjutant-General’s Corps Royal Colonel
7th Battalion, The Rifles Vice-Patron
Adjutant General’s Corps Regimental Association Patron
Royal Army Educational Corps Association; Army Families Federation
THE DUKE OF KENT ARMY
Field Marshal Colonel-in-Chief
The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers; Lorne Scots (Peel, Dufferin and Hamilton Regiment)
Deputy Colonel-in-Chief
The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys)
Royal Colonel
1st Battalion The Rifles Colonel
Scots Guards ROYAL AIR FORCE Honorary Air Chief Marshal Honorary Air Commodore
RAF Leuchars
THE DUCHESS OF KENT ARMY
Deputy Colonel-in-Chief
The Royal Dragoon Guards; Adjutant-General’s Corps;
The Royal Logistic Corps
PRINCE MICHAEL OF KENT ROYAL NAVY
Honorary Rear Admiral Royal Naval Reserve ARMY
Colonel-in-Chief
Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment (Ontario) Regimental Colonel
Honourable Artillery Company Major(retired)
King’s Royal Hussars ROYAL AIR FORCE Honorary Air Commodore
RAF Benson
PRINCESS ALEXANDRA, THE HON. LADY OGILVY
ROYAL NAVY Patron
Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service ARMY
Colonel-in-Chief
The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada; The Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary’s)
Deputy Colonel-in-Chief The Queen’s Royal Lancers Royal Colonel
3rd Battalion The Rifles Royal Honorary Colonel
The Royal Yeomanry ROYAL AIR FORCE Patron and Air Chief Commandant
Princess Mary’s RAF Nursing Service Honorary Air Commodore
RAF Cottesmore
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