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King Charles III gives thanks to D-Day veterans with Prince William, Queen Camilla

King Charles III, Queen Camilla and Prince William are commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day as a family.The British monarch gave a passionate speech remembering veterans at an event in English coastal city Portsmouth on Wednesday, the eve of the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944. Operation Overlord was the joint air and sea invasion of German Nazi-occupied France by World War II Allies and the French Resistance."Today we come together to honor those nearly 160,000 British, Commonwealth and Allied troops," who "assembled here and along these shores to embark on the mission which would strike that blow for freedom and be recorded as the greatest amphibious operation in history," Charles said. "All knew that both victory and failure were possible, and none could know their fate."He continued, "It is a near impossible task to imagine the emotion of that day: the pride of being part of so great an enterprise, the anxiety of in some way not coming up to scratch, and the fear of that...

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