Royal Recognition: Princess Anne Awards Lifeboatman for Heroic - The Royal Family Channel

HRH Princess Anne the Princess Royal has presented a medal to a lifeboatman who battled hurricane-like conditions to save the lives eight people on board a French yacht.Coxswain Patch Harvey was awarded the Silver Medal for Gallantry by Princess Anne as he stood alongside his wife,Nina,at a garden party to celebrate the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's 200th anniversary.HRH Edward Duke of Kent also attended.*Reported by Matt Blair and edited by Andrew Taylor