The King, Queen and Prince of Wales will travel to Normandy to attend a number of commemorative events on Thursday.
Members of the royal family and veterans are preparing to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings
On the eve of the anniversary, hundreds of Armed Forces personnel will parachute into a historic D-Day drop zone in France to recreate the airborne liberation of Normandy 80 years ago.The RAF said Battle of Britain Memorial Flight aircraft are “not expected” to fly in D-Day commemorations amid an investigation into the death of pilot Mark Long in a Spitfire crash near RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire last Saturday.
On Monday, D-Day veterans will meet local schoolchildren at an event in Portsmouth – the nerve centre of D-Day operations 80 years ago – before they are shown around Southwick House from where General Dwight Eisenhower directed operations back in 1944. The Princess Royal, Colonel-in-Chief of The Royal Regina Rifles, will unveil a statue of a Second World War Canadian Royal Regina Rifleman in Normandy and attend a reception with members of the regiment.
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