The Princess of Wales drove a seven-tonne armoured vehicle equipped with a machine gun during her first visit to 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards in Norfolk on Wednesday. 

The Princess donned a combat jacket and helmet as she drove the Jackal 2 vehicle at the Robertson Barracks in Swanton Morley.

Corporal Darreyl Tukana, a driving instructor, sat beside the Princess as she manoeuvered the vehicle. 

“She was a natural,” he said. “She drives a Land Rover back at home – I told her it’s exactly the same, just take it slowly and go back to where we started off from.

“She was enjoying every bit of the journey itself … It’s different from what she’s driving, it’s a bigger vehicle.”