Royals join poignant D-Day commemorations

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🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

When King Charles was starting to think about his return from cancer treatment, being able to join the D-Day 80th anniversary commemorations was at the top of his list. Pod Save the King host Ann Gripper is joined by Daily Mirror royal editor Russell Myers to reflect on a poignant series of events in Britain and France, where the King was joined by Queen Camilla and Prince William. They also look ahead to Trooping the Colour, including the latest update on the Princess of Wales’s health as she continues her own cancer treatment, as well as the Japanese State Visit - and Prince Andrew’s home improvements. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.2	Hold Save the King! Save the King!
0:35.0	Hello and welcome back to POD Save the King.
0:40.0	I'm your host Anne Gripper.
0:42.0	I am joined by Daily Mirror Royal Editor Russell Meyers. None of us are quite where we expected to be today. I'm at home because I've not been feeling so well. Russell was meant to be in France, but he's in the office, which is where I was meant to be and Dan the second
0:54.0	is poorly so get well soon to Dan. So Russell nice to see you I'm sorry you're with me but
0:58.8	not in France. Well it's always a pleasure but yeah I'm a bit disappointed there was a bit of a
1:04.4	well it wasn't even a mix-up really the the French authorities were just keen to keep the
1:08.8	numbers down but very late in the day we were told that we could only have a couple of accreditation.
1:14.4	So we have sent our trusted colleague Lucy Thornton who has been doing an absolutely
1:20.2	incredible job over in Normandy and I was reporting on the event in Portsmouth
1:26.1	yesterday on Wednesday and and Ian Vogler friend of the podcast he is over in
1:31.8	Normandy as well doing a sterling job so please do check all of our
1:36.4	coverage out on our platforms because it has been um I suppose it's it's been very
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