In place of the bearskin, worn on ceremonial occasions, Prince William will wear a simple forage cap bearing the regiment’s felicitous motto: Quis Separabit? (Who shall separate us?).
His decision to wear the Irish Guards Mounted Officer’s uniform, in Guard of Honour Order, was welcomed as a tribute to a battalion that has recently returned from an arduous tour in Afghanistan.
It may also reflect the Royal family’s wish to demonstrate the strengthening of ties between London and Dublin ahead of the Queen’s historic state visit to Ireland next month.
But the Prince’s choice of Army dress was said to have “disappointed” some of his colleagues in the RAF, with whom he works as a search and rescue helicopter pilot.
It is customary for senior members of the Royal family to be given the title of high ranking officers in the Armed Forces, and traditional for them to wear military uniform to major royal weddings.
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