The Duke of Cambridge is to become a helicopter pilot with East Anglian Air Ambulance, Kensington Palace has announced.
After completing a mandatory period of training this autumn and winter, Prince William will start work with the Air Ambulance, based at Cambridge and Norwich Airports and flying both day and night shifts, next spring. The Duke will start as a co-pilot but, after a period of training, will be qualified to fly as a helicopter commander.
The statement from Kensington Palace said William’s roster will take into account his royal duties and responsibilities, which he will continue.
The 32-year-old royal will donate his salary in full to charity and it’s expected that he, Kate and Prince George will relocate from Kensington Palace to Anmer Hall on the Queen’s Sandringham Estate.
Prince William has been lured back into the skies with pilot job at the East Anglian Air Ambulance service.
A flashback to Prince Harry and Prince William sitting together on the steps of Highgrove House wearing army uniforms in July, 1986.
A young Prince William walking through the grounds of Kensington Palace after watching the parachute regiment Red Devils Team parachute into the garden.
Prince William wearing the uniform of the Parachute Regiment of the British Army in the garden of Highgrove House in Gloucestershire, 18th July 1986.
There was speculation that William may have taken on an agricultural role on his father’s property in Cornwall in preference to an army career.
Prince William takes part in the Army’s Regular Commissions Board selection process enabling him to join the army as an officer cadet at Sandhurst Military Academy October, 2005.
Prince William is pictured during a training session in 2005 when he began his two-month attachment with the Royal Navy at Britannia Royal Naval college, in Dartmouth, England.
Prince William takes part in an army training exercise in Cyprus, Greece in 2006.
William made many good friends while training in the military.
Prince William marches with fellow soldiers in the Sovereign’s Parade at Sandhurst Military Academy in 2006.
Prince William collects a flying helmet after along with his parachute beside his instructor Squadron Leader, Roger Bousfield while they prepare to go flying while training at airbase RAF Cranwell, near Sleaford, Lincolnshire in January, 2008.
Prince William walks on the tarmac with his squadron in Qatar during the final phase of his training with the Royal Air Force in 2008.
Prince William walks across the tarmac on his way to fly a Grob 115E light aircraft, known as the Tutor, in 2008.
Prince William and Prince Harry pose in front of a Griffin helicopter during a photocall at RAF Shawbury on June 18, 2009 in Shawbury, England.
Prince William and Prince Harry with their grandfather, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh on the steps of the Old College after the Sovereign’s Parade at Sandhurst Military Academy.
Duke of Cambridge talks with soldiers as he attends the Irish Guards Afghanistan Operational Medals Parade at Victoria Barracks on June 25, 2011 in Windsor, England.
William is pictured at the controls of a Sea King helicopter during a training exercise at Holyhead Mountain, having flown from RAF Valley in Anglesey, north Wales in 2011.
The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge head back to the RAF Rescue base after Prince William showed his father round his RAF Sea King Rescue helicopter at RAF Valley on July 9, 2012.
