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After Prince Phillip retired from public service, Twumasi-Ankrah supported Queen Elizabeth II at public events.
Proud to see Her Late Majesty’s equerry, Nana Kofi Twumasi-Ankrah, accompanying her coffin in today’s #StateFuneral. https://t.co/pArK92VNBq
— Jon Benjamin ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ✡️ (@JonBenjamin19) September 19, 2022
Background
His military history has it that he is an officer of the Household Cavalry and a veteran of the war in Afghanistan.
Born in Ghana in 1979, he moved to the UK with his parents in 1982 when he was three years old.
Twumasi-Ankrah enrolled at Queen Mary University, London upon completion of his school education and then joined the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
He who was commissioned by the Blues and Royals at the time, served in the military all his life. He was the first British Army black African officer to be commissioned into the Cavalry of the Household.
Speaking on film for a documentary on Britain’s open and democratic society, Major Twumasi-Ankrah said: “As a young child, watching her majesty the Queen’s birthday parade on television, I would have never imagined that one day I’d command the regiment which I’d fallen in love with.”
He added: “From where I sit and from what I’ve seen in the UK, our cultures really do mix and intermingle, and if I’m not a good example of that I really don’t know what is.”
