ARMY cadets are learning about the origins of the cap-badge they wear with their uniforms.
Youngsters from across Cleveland are taking part in visits to the Green Howards Regimental Museum, in Richmond, North Yorkshire.
And among the things they are discovering is that the regiment's distinctive badge was designed by a princess.
Alexandra, who in 1901 became monarch alongside Edward VII, was Princess of Wales when, in 1875, she agreed to the Green Howards taking the name of Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment.
She also designed the badge, which incorporates her single-arched coronet, initial A and the Danish cross, as she came from Denmark. Confusingly, she added the date 1875 - although the regiment was founded in 1688.
The visits are on Mondays and Thursdays this month.
Curator Roger Chapman said: "Cadets who wear the Green Howards cap badge are part of the regimental family, so we feel it is important that they know something of our history.
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