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It was King Charles' first overseas engagement since February's cancer diagnosis, but nothing was going to keep him from this event.
Very touching as well, how the 6th ofjune had in many ways been ordered every day and the baker had got up and started breaking his day and suddenly all this noise and confusion and everything changed. —— ordinary day. arromanches is the town close to all that was to remember d—day and it is close to mole beach and is also where the harbour was built, this vital piece of infrastructure which allowed materials to pour in in the weeks of the normandy campaign that followed and since then there have been commemorations and it is a town heaving with people that have come to rememberfrom heav...
Waiting for the service that is about to begin. commemoratives events and he is talking to the canadian prime minister there. he has really been at the heart of these events, prince william, he was in arromanches a little earlier and he got a great greeting their id there were hundreds of people in the square in arromanches to see prince william. some were even hanging out of windows to catch a glimpse of him, the prince of wales. there were also veterans in the town there to greet the crowds. many british people also came to arromanches to soak up the atmosphere. the atmosphere is dominated b...
Leaders who have come to normandy to remember the fallen, to praise the veterans who are still alive and do other —— who are there and to talk about the enduring struggle between democracy and dictatorship. just got a glimpse there of the beach, one of the beaches, that is omaha beach, one of the five beaches where the troops landed. smiles from president macron the host of all of this. and prince william who has been, as i was mentioning in arromanches and very much at the heart of these d—day commemorative events.
Earlier we spent the day with the royal marines, part of the official army, navy led part of the commemorations and the royal marines following in the commemorations of their forebears, following in the commemorations of theirforebears, the following in the commemorations of their forebears, the 47 commando who arrived just beside arromanches and were on that lighting craft with peaceful, beautiful surroundings and a welcoming committee on the beach. —— landing craft. the poignancy of the contrast between that and the hellish shelling and mayhem that accompanied the men who arrived at exac...