{"id":2313806,"date":"2026-03-05T12:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2313806"},"modified":"2026-03-05T12:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:33:17","slug":"royal-helicopter-touches-down-in-herefordshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royal-helicopter-touches-down-in-herefordshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal helicopter touches down in Herefordshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A ROYAL helicopter touched down in Herefordshire on Wednesday during a trip to Brecon to honour a former lady-in-waiting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Princess Anne, Prince William and the Duchess of Edinburgh were reported to have been in attendance at a memorial service to the late Dame Shan Legge-Bourke at Brecon Cathedral on March 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The royals travelled to and from the service by royal helicopter, Hello! reported, with a Leonardo AW139 that was masking its identity on flight tracker FlightRadar then seen travelling from Brecon to Credenhill, landing in Herefordshire shortly after midday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Planefinder.net shows royal helicopter G-XXEF travelling from London to Brecon via Gloucester on Wednesday, stopping in Brecon before heading to Credenhill for an hour and then returning to Brecon and onwards to London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It was reported in 2024 that there were plans to replace the aging Sikorsky helicopters used by the royals with AgustaWestland AW139s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two AW139s are currently operated by the King&#8217;s Helicopter Flight<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dame Shan Legge-Bourke, who died in December, was the mother of Prince William and Prince Harry&#8217;s nanny, Tiggy Legge-Bourke and a former lady in waiting to the Princess Royal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She had inherited the Glanusk Estate in Crickhowell, Powys, from her father, the third Baron Glanusk in 1948 and served as Lord Lieutenant of Powys from 1998 to 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uk.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ROYAL helicopter touched down in Herefordshire on Wednesday during a trip to Brecon to honour a former lady-in-waiting. Princess Anne, Prince William and the Duchess of Edinburgh were reported to have been in attendance at a memorial service to the late Dame Shan Legge-Bourke at Brecon Cathedral on March 4. 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