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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Daniel Boffey Chief reporter

King Charles and Rishi Sunak join veterans for 80th anniversary of D-day

King Charles III sits in a semi-circle with D-day veterans Bernard Morgan and John Dennett in a room in Buckingham Palace
King Charles III meeting D-day veterans Bernard Morgan and John Dennett in Buckingham Palace, which will feature in the BBC's D-Day 80: Tribute to the Fallen. Photograph: Chris Jackson/BBC/PA

Rishi Sunak’s election campaigning and King Charles’s convalescence from cancer will be put on hold for 48 hours, as the two men join veterans to mark the 80th anniversary of D-day on the south coast of England and in Normandy.

Two days of events at the ports where allied troops embarked for their perilous journey, and on the French beaches from where they began the liberation of Europe in 1944, will begin on Wednesday at 11am on Southsea common on Portsmouth’s sea front.

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