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KingCharlesReport: King, Queen and Prince to D-Day's 80th anniversary

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 22 May 2024

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KingCharlesReport: King, Queen and Prince to D-Day's 80th anniversary
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/king-charles-will-attend-d-day-commemorations/ar-BB1mzIDX

1917 KING AND QUEEN

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0:00.0

I'm John Bess who is my good colleague Gregory Coppley, an Australian national and therefore

0:10.1

is subject to the King of Australia.

0:12.0

Did I get that right, Gregory? The king of Australia. Did I get that right, Craig Rick?

0:13.3

The king of Australia.

0:14.6

Who is Charles the third, also the king of the United Kingdom

0:17.9

and the king of other bodies.

0:20.1

But right now he's the king of himself

0:21.8

because he's working extremely hard.

0:23.8

I'm just reading a short list of what he's been up to.

0:26.3

Children have dubbed him the King of Compost at the Chelsea Flower Show.

0:30.4

He appeared suddenly on the stage of the Royal Opera, delighting the cast as they were taking their

0:35.4

bows. At the same time, he plans to attend the D-Day ceremony, the 80th anniversary of the D-Day ceremony, June 6th, 7th, and 8th in Normandy, and he will be attending

0:48.4

with the Queen, Camilla, and the Prince of Wales, William at the same time.

0:53.8

Gregory, it is necessary for me to ask you to tell the younger audience what D-Day is,

0:59.6

because there's polling consistent with our general understanding that history has been poorly taught these last decades.

1:06.8

What does D. Day represent, Gregory?

1:09.4

Well, it certainly represented at the beginning or the midpoint of the end of the Nazi

1:16.0

global totalitarian attempt to to conquer the world.

1:21.0

At that point, once the Normandy invasion was successful, it showed that

1:28.2

Nazism was basically finished. It showed this ultimate, it pricked the bubble, if you like, of the solidarity and strength of the Nazi capability

1:38.9

throughout Europe.

1:40.2

So it was a massive effort and a risky one too.

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