King Charles III honors a generation that fought, died and waited for freedom
Hindustan TimesVER-SUR-Mer, France — King Charles III came to northern France on Thursday to honor the 22,442 British troops who died in the Battle of Normandy. King Charles III honors a generation that fought, died and waited for freedom He also came to honor a generation. He said that while the number of living veterans was dwindling, “our obligation to remember what they stood for and what they achieved for us all can never diminish.” “Eighty years ago on D-Day, the 6th of June 1944, our nation – and those which stood alongside it – faced what my grandfather, King George VI, described as the supreme test," Charles said. U.K. monarchs have taken a leading role in honoring the nation’s war dead ever since Charles’ great-grandfather King George V presided over the burial of an unknown soldier of the First World War at Westminster Abbey in 1920.
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