Britain’s Queen Elizabeth will visit Canterbury on June 28.
The British monarch will wave goodbye to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, who are set to leave the city in south east England after 10 years of being stationed there.
Queen Elizbeth is the colonel in chief of the battalion and is expected to attend an official goodbye parade next Friday, where she will meet with soldiers from the regiment and their families.
The battalion will parade through the streets of Canterbury to say goodbye to the residents in the early morning and will then parade again for the 87-year-old monarch in the ”late morning”, according to the Canterbury Times newspaper.
As part of a British Army reorganisation, the 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland will be reduced to just 100 soldiers and they will be relocated to Edinburgh at the end of this month.
Canterbury residents expressed their excitement at the royal visit.
City local Benn James said: ”I am very much looking forward to it with a friend of mine, work day booked off all in preparation to line the streets.”
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Queen Elizabeth books Canterbury visit
Queen Elizabeth will visit Canterbury on June 28 to say goodbye to the 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, a regiment she is colonel in chief of.