Queen Camilla was visibly emotional as her husband delivered a heart-wrenching speech to mark D-Day - the Allied invasion of Normandy, France during WWII - 80 years on. The King warned we must never forget the service and sacrifice of veterans as the Queen was moved to tears during commemorations for the 80th anniversary of D-Day. He acknowledged that today, 80 years on, it was “near-impossible” to imagine the sheer terror and anxiety that faced the hundreds of thousands who took part in the Normandy landings.
But he said it was our “duty” to ensure future generations understand how their service and sacrifice replaced tyranny with freedom. “The stories of courage, resilience and solidarity we have heard today and throughout our lives cannot fail to move us, to inspire us and to remind us of what we owe to that great wartime generation,” he told a commemorative event on Southsea Common in Portsmouth. “We are all eternally in their debt.
” Before the King gave his speech, he and the Queen shared an emotional moment amid the commemorations. The Queen was pictured with a tear in her eye, while the King was seen wiping a tear away. The King delivered a stirring address to the hundreds gathered in the sunshine, overlooking the sea where 80 years ago hundreds of thousands of men had set off for Normandy, so many never to return.
His Majesty, 75, who was accompanied by the Queen, read a message that Field Marshal Montgomery, Commander in Chief of the Allied Ground For.
