Andrew Staying in Navy: He’ll Go to Sea in ’88
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LONDON — Prince Andrew, second son of Queen Elizabeth, will take an assignment aboard the destroyer Edinburgh next May, the Defense Ministry said today, ending press speculation that he would quit the navy following his marriage last year to Sarah Ferguson.
The ministry said Andrew, who saw combat as a helicopter pilot in Britain’s 1982 Falklands War against Argentina, will join the Edinburgh in May.
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