Watch a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings take place at the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-sur-Mer on Thursday 6 June.
King Charles III and Queen Camilla attended the commemoration event along with Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer.
The site, opened in 2021, pays tribute to the 22,442 servicemen under British command who died on D-Day and during the Battle of Normandy in the summer of 1944.
This was the first major anniversary event organized at the memorial, and Charles and Camilla will officially open the Winston Churchill Center for Education and Learning after Thursday's commemorations.
His visit comes after an emotional ceremony in Portsmouth on Wednesday, where the King appeared to wipe away a tear during an event where he paid tribute to the “courage, resilience and solidarity” of World War II veterans.
Meanwhile, Prince William attended the Canadian commemorative event at the Juno Beach Centre, Courseulles-sur-Mer, before joining more than 25 heads of state and veterans for the official international ceremony at Omaha Beach, Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer. Mer.
