The Prime Minister, on the Floor of the House, announced today the decision of Her Majesty the Queen to confer upon the town and residents of Wootton Bassett the title 'Royal' and which will be conferred officially in September this year.
This is in tribute to the Townspeople who, representative of the Greater British People, have stood resolutely with our Armed Forces in their darkest moments when loved ones are repatriated, not to live, but to lay in rest.
It is the first time that this designation has been conferred upon a town in over one hundred years and entirely reflects the mood of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and demonstrates to all of our Armed Forces on active service in the front line and in all parts of the world that we continue to stand with them and support them and their families.
It demonstrates too to the wider world that we are very much a United Kingdom.
Ian Bradley Marshall
LIVERPOOL
16 March 2011
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