Prince William takes off in Apache helicopter as King Charles makes him leader of Prince Harry’s army unit

regiment to the Prince of Wales on Monday. In another brutal snub to the Duke of Sussex, the 75-year-old monarch named Prince William colonel-in-chief of the Army Air Corps.

The King passed on the baton to his eldest son in a rare joint engagement at the Army Aviation Centre in Middle Wallop, south England.will now head the regiment, which previously belonged to his brother, who served as an Apache helicopter pilot in Afghanistan. At the historic ceremony, the royal father-son duo was received by a Guard of Honor and Lieutenant General Sir Nicholas Borton, Colonel Commandant of the Army Air Corps, who escorted them to the Army Flying Museum, per New York Post.According to the outlet, Prince Harry would have been given the title should he remain a working member of the royal family.

However, the younger prince took a step back from his duties in 2020 and moved to the United States, where he now permanently resides with his wife,