Prince William just recently received a handful of new ranks from his father, King Charles III.
The 41-year-old Prince of Wales is the newly anointed Colonel-in-Chief of the Mercian Regiment, Colonel-in-Chief of the Army Air Corps and Royal Honorary Air Commodore of Royal Air Force Valley.
The new military appointments feature one (Colonel-in-Chief of the Army Air Corps) with a connection to his brother, Prince Harry.
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The Army Air Corps is Prince Harry‘s former unit, as he served as a Forward Air Controller and then as an Apache Pilot in the Army, during his tenure with the unit and in the British military.
Harry had been promoted to the rank of Captain in 2011. He retired from military service in 2015.
Before stepping back from as a senior working royal and the royal family with wife Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, Harry was given the honorary titles of Captain General of the Royal Marines, Honorary Air Commandant of Royal Air Force Honington and Commodore-in-Chief, Small Ships and Diving, Royal Naval Command.
In addition to William, King Charles also gifted Princess Catherine with a special title earlier in the week.
Meanwhile, Harry was spotted in Singapore taking part in a polo match for a Sentebale fundraiser.