I'm John Datschut.

Gregory Coppley, Defense and Foreign Affairs is here and we turn to the King Charles report.

King Charles conducted himself again and again as an extremely important

representative of the sacrifice on Normandy of the British Empire at the

time what was remaining of the French Empire recovering its native

France, and the nascent American Empire rising. The King attended the ceremonies.

I was struck Gregory by the fact that the King shared the honoring the conscious of the fact that he accepted the crown as a senior member of the

community and therefore believes that William doesn't have nearly as long to

prepare for his role of kingship as Charles did and so therefore he's going to include his son in

everything is that how to interpret this I think that's a fair interpretation he's

certainly highly conscious of giving responsibility to William as fast as William can accept it.

William clearly is accepting responsibility and viewing his roles and missions

through his own generation, but King Charles and Prince William are very, very close in terms of discussing

how to approach these issues. And the Normandy situation was a case in point. The King gave a

breathtaking speech in Portsmouth basically before, basically to celebrate the the launching of the invasion from British shores.

And so the King's speech there was profound.

Then he and William went to Normandy to participate with other international leaders.

And the King rightly went to the British beaches where he gave his recitation because,

this face at the bulk of the troops in the D-Day

landings were Canadian and British

and other Commonwealth forces.

And so the king was there, whereas President Biden of course was close to the American beaches where the American landings took place and William was also there where other international leaders were participating.

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