Prince William dons camouflage gear in Salisbury to join the Welsh Guards in practice drills

Prince William donned his camouflage cogwheel arsenic helium arrived contiguous successful Salisbury to articulation the Welsh Guards successful drill practice.

William, 42, is spending the greeting with the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards successful his capableness arsenic colonel of the regiment - a relation helium assumed successful December 2022.

Tuesday's sojourn to the Salisbury Plain marks William's 2nd royal engagement successful arsenic galore days, aft helium inaugurated a caller biology task unneurotic with Oman's Crown Prince successful London yesterday. 

The aboriginal king matched with the officers of the Welsh Guards, with William wearing his subject uniform. 

William’s sojourn has been designed to springiness him the accidental to perceive however the Welsh Guards person been transitioning from their ceremonial duties backmost to the Field Army. 

For the past 2 years, the Battalion has led a fig of humanities ceremonial events including the ceremonial for Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III, and arsenic Trooping their Colour for His Majesty’s archetypal Birthday Parade past year. 

Additionally, the regiment has been carrying retired overseas operations successful the Falkland Islands and Oman. 

The 1st Battalion Welsh Guards are present focusing connected regrowing the regiments specializer weapons capabilities to bolster their enactment overseas and successful the UK. 

As portion of this, Specialist Platoons wrong the Welsh Guards person been carrying retired unrecorded firing grooming connected Salisbury Plain, utilizing antithetic limb systems to guarantee safety, competency and cognition of these systems successful realistic scenarios. 

After the Prince of Wales received a briefing connected the enactment the preparatory enactment the regiment has been doing and gathering unit from the Specialist Platoons, helium joined the officers successful signifier drills with snipers and instrumentality guns.  

The Prince, who himself went done Sandhurst and past joined the Household Cavalry (Blues and Royals) arsenic an serviceman wherever helium worked arsenic a unit vessel commander, besides observed however assorted different weapons are utilized by the Welsh Guards. 

These included GPMG (General Purpose Machine Gun) and Small Uncrewed Aerial Systems (sUAS – Drones) which supply important vantage to commanders and soldiers connected the ground. 

During his visit, helium volition besides person the accidental to conscionable with the Specialist Platoons to sermon their antithetic roles wrong the Welsh Guards and however they are uncovering the modulation backmost from their ceremonial roles.

While William is flying solo today, helium was accompanied by Princess Catherine arsenic they honoured the Welsh Guards during the St David's Parade successful Windsor past March - which marked William's archetypal clip visiting the Battalion since assuming his royal role. 

In a abbreviated code astatine the time, William said helium was 'honoured and delighted' to beryllium their caller Colonel, taking implicit the ceremonial relation held by his father, the erstwhile Prince of Wales, Charles.  

William's travel to the Salisbury Plain comes 1 time aft Prince William joined Oman's Crown Prince His Royal Highness Theyazin bin Haitham to inaugurate an ambitious caller biology inaugural astatine London's Royal Geographical Society connected Monday. 

As co-patrons of the Jewel of Arabia Expedition, William and Theyazin unveiled the task that aims to item some Oman's affluent biodiversity and heritage,m arsenic good arsenic the biology pressures facing the country. 

The trek has been designed to beforehand the biodiversity and practice of Oman but besides item the biology pressures facing the country.

The expedition squad volition beryllium retracing the steps of British explorer Bertram Thomas who made the travel successful 1928. Thomas kept diaries of his travels, accompanied by photographs and elaborate maps of the area.

While Prince William does not plan to alert to Oman successful January to articulation the expedition, helium told guests helium would 'try and marque thing happen' successful the aboriginal arsenic regards a visit.

The prince added: 'We're successful the readying process.'

Williiam was invited by his Omani counterpart to beryllium a co-patron of the expedition due to the fact that of his focused conservation efforts and activism - including launching the Earthshot Prize successful 2019 erstwhile helium was the Duke of Cambridge. 

Speaking astatine the London motorboat of the Jewel of Arabia expedition, William said helium was 'delighted' 1 of the erstwhile winners of his Earthshot Prize hailed from Oman. 

Prince William has made a fig of nationalist appearances successful November, with Princess Catherine of Wales joining him for the nation's remembrance events. 

William remained by his wife's broadside erstwhile they joined elder members of the Royal Family at the yearly Festival of Remembrance performance connected November 9 - marking Kate's archetypal large authoritative engagement since completing her preventative chemotherapy treatment. 

Kate, 42, shared she had been diagnosed with an undisclosed signifier of crab successful March, weeks aft Buckingham Palace announced King Charles was besides battling the illness that was detected during unrelated attraction for an enlarged prostate. 

 In a uncommon infinitesimal of vulnerability, Prince William described the past twelvemonth arsenic the 'hardest' of his beingness pursuing his woman and father's crab diagnoses. 

He admitted 2024 had been 'brutal' during an interrogation successful South Africa, wherever this year's Earthshot Prize awards ceremonial was held. 

William besides said helium was 'proud' of the dignity, courage, and grace with which Kate and his begetter had handled their respective wellness battles.

Speaking successful Cape Town, William was asked however the past twelvemonth had been for him arsenic a hubby and a son.  

'Honestly? It's been dreadful,' helium replied. 'It's astir apt been the hardest twelvemonth successful my life. So, trying to get done everything other and support everything connected way has been truly difficult.

'But I'm truthful arrogant of my wife, I'm arrogant of my father, for handling the things that they person done.' 

At the extremity of his sojourn to South Africa, William besides said helium is hopeful Kate volition beryllium capable to articulation him connected overseas trips adjacent year, arsenic the Princess of Wales makes a dependable instrumentality to nationalist beingness aft completing her crab attraction this autumn. 

Earlier this month, Kensington Palace confirmed Kate volition big her yearly Christmas carol performance successful December, with the televised work astatine Westminster Abbey 'eflecting connected 'how overmuch we request each other, particularly successful the astir hard times of our lives'.

The aboriginal queen posted a teaser video connected X of her authoritative royal invitations being printed for prime individuals.

Each invitation contained Kate's elegant royal cypher, which is the archetypal C for Catherine underneath a crown, and the clip showed them being printed 'fresh disconnected the press'.

The princess wrote: 'Something breathtaking is coming...

'The invitations are caller disconnected the property for this year's Together At Christmas Carol Service, which volition beryllium returning to Westminster Abbey connected Friday 6 December.

'We can't hold for you to articulation america too! Tune successful connected @ITV and @ITVX connected Christmas Eve.'

The video ended with the Kensington Palace logo, followed by falling snowflakes to people the commencement of the festive season.