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Princess Royal at new village for veterans in Aylesford
KentOnline / KMTV
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20/10/2023
It's part of the £22m development, which provides a range of homes, welfare support and a community for the country's most vulnerable veterans.
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Well, the weather might have been miserable today, but a joyous occasion here at the Centenary
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Village in Ellesford. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal was here to visit and open
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a new home for veterans. The site has been here for more than 100 years, opening in 1919
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to provide support for the sick and wounded. Her Royal Highness saw some of the new facilities
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on offer and met the staff and the residents and the fundraisers who made this all possible.
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We've fundraised £22 million since 2016 and it's for veterans, it's to build new facilities
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for veterans, housing, apartments, supported living, but we're building a big community
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centre with teaching rooms and gymnasium. Today the Royal even went into Rod and Veronica's
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home. Rod served in the Royal Engineers for 18 years and Rod and the Royal Highness have
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something in common. She asked me what lot I was with, I said the Engineers, I said with
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the tanks. She looked at me and I was down in Paddedby driving the tank, which I knew
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because I'd seen her down there. She said, who made me driving tanks and I used to drive
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them, which she did once. Just jumped in the one and had a go. But after he left the service
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he suffered 19 months of abuse from his neighbours. He says in that time Veronica lost a lot of
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weight but now they say they've moved here and the life has turned around. There must
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be thousands of people like us that need rescued and it's sad. We were two of the lucky ones.
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We were very lucky. We were. Today you had Her Royal Highness in your front room. How
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did that feel? That was magical. An absolute privilege. But to bear in mind that just over
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a hundred years ago your predecessors came up with a remarkably good model. Quite often
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people reinvent that particular wheel. What you've done is make this model work better
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and better. Arguably it's a little sad that it is as unique as it appears to be and that
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this model doesn't happen elsewhere. Her Royal Highness officially opened 24 new homes today
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at Greenwich House. It's part of 40 new ones here but I'm told by the RBLI that even more
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will be built in the not too distant future. Gabriel Morris for KMTV in Ellsford.
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