After disclosing his cancer diagnosis, King Charles III has traveled overseas for the first time.
In order to attend the U.K. Ministry of Defense and the Royal British Legion’s commemoration ceremony in celebration of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings during World War II, the king and his wife, Queen Camilla, arrived in Normandy, France, on Thursday.
Brigitte Macron, the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, joined the pair.
At a D-Day event for veterans, King Charles delivers his first public speech since being diagnosed with cancer.
The king, who declared his illness in February, paid tribute to the Allied troops who arrived in France on June 6, 1944, with the goal of freeing the country from Nazi-occupied northwest Europe.
Charles made a statement at the ceremony and remarked, “How fortunate we were, and the entire free world, that a generation of men and women in the United Kingdom and other Allied nations did not flinch when the moment came to face that test.” “On the beaches of Normandy, on the seas beyond, and in the skies overhead, our armed forces carried out their duty with a humbling sense of resolve and determination.”
