How well do you know your royal visits to the county? Test your knowledge with our Coronation Quiz which covers royal visits and events from 1948 to the present day.
1) Where in the county did the 22-year-old Prince Charles complete his first parachute drop in July 1971, which he recalled as ‘initially upside down with my legs in the rigging lines’?
2) Which co-educational Dorset prep school did Princess Anne’s children Peter Phillips and Zara Tindall attend?
3) Which ground-breaking urban extension, due to be completed in 2025, had the keen endorsement of King Charles III when he was the Prince of Wales and is built on Duchy of Cornwall land?
4) In 1959 Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by the 10-year-old Prince Charles, came to Weymouth to see which recently constructed aircraft carrier?
5) Where in Dorset did HRH Princess Elizabeth inspect the 16th/5th Lancers in 1948 as their Colonel-in-Chief?
6) In July 2004 Queen Elizabeth II and HRH the Duke of Edinburgh attended the opening of a new lifeboat crew training centre in which Dorset seaside town?
7) Besides the Tower of London, the Ceremony of the Keys is also performed at which Dorset castle?
8) With which Bovington-based regiment did both Prince William and Prince Harry train?
9) With which family did one associate the Duke of Dorset?
10) What did Queen Elizabeth II unveil in Poundbury on October 27, 2016?
Answers: 1) Studland Bay 2) Port Regis School 3) Poundbury 4) HMS Eagle 5) Lulworth Camp 6) RNLI HQ in Poole 7) Portland Castle 8) Royal Tank Regiment 9) Sackville family 10) Queen Mother Statue, a 3m bronze statue by sculptor Philip Jackson
