Queen Camilla joined French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron, on Thursday, June 6, to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings during World War II in Normandy, France.King Charles, dressed in military uniform, laid a wreath at the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-Sur-Mer and spoke of the sacrifice and bravery of Allied soldiers who invaded France on June 6, 1944, to liberate France and Western Europe from Nazi Germany.“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,” he said to a crowd of veterans.
