The King and Queen appeared emotional as they heard the experiences of D-Day veterans at a British-led commemorative event marking 80 years since the Normandy landings.
Charles spoke of his “profound sense of gratitude” to those who stepped up at that "critical time" by fighting in the D-day operation, as he addressed the audience at Ver-sur-Mer.
He paid tribute to the “remarkable wartime generation” as he said: “How fortunate we were, and the entire free world, that a generation of men and women in the United Kingdom and other Allied nations did not flinch when the moment came to face that test."
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