The King’s D-Day 80th anniversary speech in full
The King has delivered a speech at the UK’s commemorative event in Normandy for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
Here is Charles’s speech in full:
“Monsieur le President, nous vous sommes reconnaissants de nous honorer de votre presence ici aujourd’hui, au memorial Britannique de Normandie.
“Eighty years ago, on D-Day, 6th June 1944, our nation and those which stood alongside us faced what my grandfather, King George VI, described as the supreme test.
“How fortunate we were, and the entire free world, that a generation of men Kingdom and other Allied nations did not flinch when the moment came to face that test.
