NAMES IN THE NEWS : Queen Turns 63, Confers Titles
Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her 63rd birthday today by conferring honorary colonel in chief titles on two of her children and two relatives by marriage.
It was the first such title for the queen’s second son, Prince Andrew, an active naval officer, and for the Staffordshire Regiment that he now heads. Princess Anne’s title was for the London Officer Training Corps that links London University and the army. The queen’s daughter-in-law, Princess Diana, who already held the title for a British and a Canadian regiment, gained her third to head the 13th-18th Hussars. The Duchess of Gloucester, whose husband is a cousin of the queen, was made colonel in chief of the Royal Irish Rangers.
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