King Charles reminisced about his own Royal Marines training, including navigating an underwater tunnel nicknamed the Sheep Dip, as he and Queen Camilla watched Kenyan marines stage a covert beach landing in Mombasa on Thursday.
For the monarch, who wore his Royal Marines tie as Captain General, the exercise brought back memories of his own military training in Lympstone, Devon, in 1974, when he qualified as a helicopter pilot.
He told one Kenyan marine: “Have the Royal Marines put you through quite a lot? Have they put you through an assault course? They are quite testing!” and asked another if they had intercepted any drug smugglers: “You know exactly what to do with them!”
Captain Sam Powell of 40 Commando, who provided the commentary, said the King “was reminiscing about the sheep dip, which is part of the endurance course.”
He added: “It is essentially a submerged tunnel that you dive through and underneath and then come out the other side. So you have to hold your breath as you go underneath it.”
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