Prince Harry is to blame for missing the 80th anniversary celebrations of D-Day because he was the one who burned bridges with his family, a royal expert claims.
King Charles, Prince William and Queen Camilla joined the crowd to mark the day the world remembers the fallen heroes and veterans of the Second World War on Thursday, but there was one person visibly missing – Prince Harry.
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Katie Nicholl told The Sun’s Royal Exclusive how it would have been a “difficult” and “gut-tightening” time for him to watch the two days of celebrations and know he was not part of it.
Speaking to The Sun’s royal editor Matt Wilkinson, the royal commentator explains that Harry fought in Afghanistan and is the only member of the royal family to have fought on the frontline twice, so in another parallel universe, he would be there.
“Every time we cover the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday, if there is anyone who has earned the right to be there and lay a wreath, it is Prince Harry, because he fought twice for his Queen and his country in Afghanistan,” she says.
“And I can only imagine, and we were talking about how happy he is in Montecito and I believe he is, he will be attending the D-Day celebrations.
“He was a soldier for much of his life as we know from the Invictus community and I think it’s a gut-churning moment for him when he realizes that despite what he did, he wasn’t part of it because he’s not part of it. of the working-class royal family.”
It’s a gut-churning moment for him where he realizes that despite what he did, he wasn’t part of this because he’s not part of the working-class royal family.
Matt goes on to note how the reality of Prince Harry’s absence from the D-Day celebrations is simply the repercussions of him burning bridges with the royal family, which Nicholls agrees with.
“They are, they are,” she says.
“We currently don’t know if he did anything in Montecito, but if he did, he didn’t do anything publicly.
“And you will remember that Remembrance Sunday when he and Meghan were photographed laying a wreath and it backfired on them.
“So I think they learned from things like that, so it must have been a difficult time for him to watch those two days of celebrations in Normandy and in Britain and know that, just like being a soldier, he wasn’t part of that. “
Matt goes on to point out how Prince William made a surprise stop in Arromanches to meet veterans on the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
The royals were visiting the D-Day museum, which was not supposed to be a press event, when several veterans of the Gloucestershire Regiment on Army saw him enter and made a point of meeting him, to which he gladly thanked him.
Wills tells the heroes that Kate ‘would love to be here’
By Matt Wilkinson and Jane Matthews
PRINCE William offered an update on Princess Kate’s health as he spoke warmly to veterans following today’s D-Day celebrations.
The Heir joined his father, Queen Camilla and other leaders alongside war heroes at a moving birthday event in Portsmouth.
King Charles and William took to the stage to pay tribute to the veterans and their families.
William later revealed that Kate was feeling “better”, adding: “She would love to be here today.”
In a cute clip that showed Prince William bending down to talk to a 95-year-old veteran, he was asked: “I was going to ask if your wife is getting better?”
William revealed she was fine, before adding: “I was reminding everyone that your grandmother worked at Bletchley Park.
“She had a lot in common with some of the ladies here who never talked about anything until the end.”
William spoke to a Bletchley Park codebreaker about Princess Kate’s grandmother Valerie, who also helped crack the Enigma code.
He said, “My wife’s grandmother did the same thing as you. Catherine only found out at the end of her life.”
The Prince also spoke to other veterans – thanking them for their service and telling them how special it had been.
He said: “I found all the stories and letters very moving, even now, 80 years later.”
When a hero said “thank you”, the Prince of Wales replied: “No, we are here to thank you”.
William said: “We’re here to say a big thank you to you and all your colleagues and friends who didn’t make it back.”
“I love this spontaneity about the Prince of Wales and I think we were both on tour and visiting when he took a detour,” explains Nicholls.
“He’ll spot someone in the crowd or see a lamppost and be drawn to it – and sometimes he’s not afraid to go off track when it comes to his schedule.”
The Prince of Wales paid tribute to the brave D-Day heroes who faced the “fury of battle” on the beaches of Normandy.
He laid a wreath and honored 14,000 Canadians who invaded Juno Beach 80 years ago.
Meanwhile, King Charles also gave a powerful and moving D-Day speech as he praised D-Day veterans at the UK commemoration event in Ver-sur-Mer, France, saying “we must stand together to oppose tyranny.” .
He added: “It is with the deepest sense of gratitude that we remember them and all who served at that critical time.”
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