The Duke of Cambridge has praised a new £300 million armed forces trauma and rehabilitation centre during a ceremony gifting the facility to the nation.

Prince William, who was patron of the funding appeal to establish the Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre (DNRC), attended the event along with 300 supporters, staff and dignitaries.

The centre has been purpose-built at the Stanford Hall Estate, Nottinghamshire, where it will provide world-class rehabilitation facilities for service personnel who have suffered major trauma or injury.

Its rehabilitation services are being transferred from Headley Court, Surrey, which has treated the nation's service personnel for more than 70 years - most recently many of those veterans gravely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A national civilian facility for the NHS is also being proposed for the same site.

The DNRC was the idea of the late 6th Duke of Westminster, Gerald Grosvenor, who led the £300 million fundraising drive with a personal gift of £70 million.

Following the duke's death in 2016, his son, the 7th Duke of Westminster, Hugh Grosvenor, carried out the duty of handing over the DNRC as a gift to the nation during the ceremony, with Prime Minister Theresa May accepting it on the UK's behalf.

She called it "an extraordinary gift" and spoke of Stanford Hall Estate providing "the next generation of rehabilitative care".