Pedantic point.
In the section where people talk about Ian Flemming & Christopher Lee served in "special duties" during WW 2, the term "Royal Army" is used.
There is no such organisiation.
There *is* a Royal Navy - it can draw it's history back to ships build in the time of Alfred the Great, King of Wessex. There is a Royal Air-Force - it was brought into existence by a royal warrant in 1918.
Nearly all regiments in the British Army, on the other hand, can draw their ancestry to units of the New Model Army - the anti-monarchist revolutionaries of the English Civil War. They then swore allegiance to the new king when the rebel government collapsed and the monarchy was restored. Many regiments have been given the title "Royal" since, when they impressed the monarch of the day e.g. Royal Warwickshire Regiment, but as the regiments were fairly independent of each other until circa 1881, the organisation as a whole never got "Royal" tacked on.
Pedantic point. In the section where people talk about Ian Flemming & Christopher Lee served in "special duties" during WW 2, the term "Royal Army" is used.
There is no such organisiation.
There *is* a Royal Navy - it can draw it's history back to ships build in the time of Alfred the Great, King of Wessex. There is a Royal Air-Force - it was brought into existence by a royal warrant in 1918.
Nearly all regiments in the British Army, on the other hand, can draw their ancestry to units of the New Model Army - the anti-monarchist revolutionaries of the English Civil War. They then swore allegiance to the new king when the rebel government collapsed and the monarchy was restored. Many regiments have been given the title "Royal" since, when they impressed the monarch of the day e.g. Royal Warwickshire Regiment, but as the regiments were fairly independent of each other until circa 1881, the organisation as a whole never got "Royal" tacked on.