{"id":555509,"date":"2026-04-28T18:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/555509\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T18:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:44:09","slug":"prince-william-visits-raf-valley-in-anglessey-for-85th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/555509\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William visits RAF Valley in Anglessey for 85th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He met former colleagues including pilot instructor Brian Wills and chief maritime instructor Andy Batchelor, to whom he spoke about maintaining his flying currency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wills said: &#8220;In a heartbeat, he said he&#8217;d come back and do it again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Batchelor, who worked with William on search and rescue crews, said: &#8220;He&#8217;s a great guy, friendly, easy to get on with, a very competent pilot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He was very easy to work with. He just wanted to be Will &#8211; he was just one of the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s great to have him back here for the 85th anniversary. He&#8217;s the Prince of Wales so it makes sense, but I think he&#8217;s got credibility because he&#8217;s lived and worked here in north Wales.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He met former colleagues including pilot instructor Brian Wills and chief maritime instructor Andy Batchelor, to whom he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-555509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}