{"id":132425,"date":"2024-06-07T04:08:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T04:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/07\/prince-william-joins-world-leaders-as-he-stands-in-for-king-charles-on-d-day-anniversary\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T04:08:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T04:08:23","slug":"prince-william-joins-world-leaders-as-he-stands-in-for-king-charles-on-d-day-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/07\/prince-william-joins-world-leaders-as-he-stands-in-for-king-charles-on-d-day-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William Joins World Leaders as He Stands in for King Charles on D-Day Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/topic\/prince-william\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Prince William<\/strong><\/a> stood in for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/topic\/king-charles-iii\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>King Charles<\/strong><\/a> on Thursday as two days of commemorations marking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/story\/king-charles-queen-camilla-prince-william-d-day-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the eightieth anniversary of D-Day<\/a> got here to an in depth.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the crucial important moments because the Prince of Wales, William stepped in for his father to affix world leaders together with President <strong>Joe Biden<\/strong>, French President <strong>Emmanuel Macron<\/strong>, and Canadian Prime Minister <strong>Justin Trudeau<\/strong> in Normandy for the finale of the eightieth anniversary of the historic D-Day landings.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Groupshot Person Adult Clothing Footwear Shoe High Heel Accessories Formal Wear Tie and Hat\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-eybHBd fptoWY responsive-image__image\" src=\"https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/6662271c15fe94b2d0c2b093\/master\/w_1600%2Cc_limit\/2156379119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/6662271c15fe94b2d0c2b093\/master\/w_120,c_limit\/2156379119 120w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/6662271c15fe94b2d0c2b093\/master\/w_240,c_limit\/2156379119 240w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/6662271c15fe94b2d0c2b093\/master\/w_320,c_limit\/2156379119 320w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/6662271c15fe94b2d0c2b093\/master\/w_640,c_limit\/2156379119 640w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/6662271c15fe94b2d0c2b093\/master\/w_960,c_limit\/2156379119 960w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/6662271c15fe94b2d0c2b093\/master\/w_1280,c_limit\/2156379119 1280w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/6662271c15fe94b2d0c2b093\/master\/w_1600,c_limit\/2156379119 1600w\" sizes=\"100vw\"\/><\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"CaptionWrapper-jSZdqE KeCSR caption AssetEmbedCaption-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__caption\"><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionText-bHjzlu iUEiRd eurnFY iXWezO caption__text\"><\/p>\n<p>First Lady Jill Biden, US President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron, French First Lady Brigitte Macron, William The Prince of Wales, Australia&#8217;s Governor-General David Hurley together with his spouse, Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg, King Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands, Queen Maxima of The Netherlands and Italian President Sergio Mattarella attend the D-Day commemoration at Omaha seashore on June 6, 2024 in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, France.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionCredit-ejegDm iUEiRd bCPQcu fNaHcW caption__credit\">Patrick van Katwijk\/Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paywall\">During the go to, Prince William additionally met with Ukrainian President <strong>Volodymyr Zelensky,<\/strong> whose nation is at struggle with Russia. William, who has met Zelensky a number of instances, greeted him with a heat handshake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">King Charles requested William to be on the ceremony on Omaha Beach, which included <strong>King Frederik X<\/strong> of Denmark and different world leaders, as palace aides had been instructed to reduce the king\u2019s schedule on the recommendation of his medical staff to forestall exhaustion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Charles, who&#8217;s present process most cancers remedy, attended a service on the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-sur-Mer earlier within the day the place he paid tribute to the \u201cremarkable wartime generation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">He was decided to attend the commemorative occasions in Portsmouth and Normandy. He has attended an important elements of the two-day-long event, delivering transferring speeches and assembly veterans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">However, on Thursday afternoon it fell to Prince William to face in for his father \u2014 one thing he had completed final December when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/prince-william-squeezes-in-one-last-business-trip-ahead-of-the-holidays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he attended the funeral of the Emir of Kuwait<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Justin Trudeau Prince William Duke of Cambridge Gabriel Attal Accessories Formal Wear Tie and Adult\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-eybHBd fptoWY responsive-image__image\" src=\"https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/6662276c16a714c987f207ec\/master\/w_1600%2Cc_limit\/2155676933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/6662276c16a714c987f207ec\/master\/w_120,c_limit\/2155676933 120w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/6662276c16a714c987f207ec\/master\/w_240,c_limit\/2155676933 240w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/6662276c16a714c987f207ec\/master\/w_320,c_limit\/2155676933 320w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/6662276c16a714c987f207ec\/master\/w_640,c_limit\/2155676933 640w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/6662276c16a714c987f207ec\/master\/w_960,c_limit\/2155676933 960w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/6662276c16a714c987f207ec\/master\/w_1280,c_limit\/2155676933 1280w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/6662276c16a714c987f207ec\/master\/w_1600,c_limit\/2155676933 1600w\" sizes=\"100vw\"\/><\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"CaptionWrapper-jSZdqE KeCSR caption AssetEmbedCaption-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__caption\"><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionText-bHjzlu iUEiRd eurnFY iXWezO caption__text\"><\/p>\n<p>French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Prince William on their return approach after laying a wreath at Juno Beach throughout the Canadian Signature Ceremony in Courseulles-sur-Mer, commemorating the eightieth anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy, on June 6, 2024, in Juno Beach, Courseulles sur Mer, Normandy, France.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionCredit-ejegDm iUEiRd bCPQcu fNaHcW caption__credit\">Anadolu\/Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paywall\">On Thursday, William confirmed off his management and diplomatic abilities and praised the bravery of the veterans who fought on D-Day. In a speech delivered to over 25 leaders and diplomats, the 41-year-old spoke in English and French to commend the motion of Canadian troops who stormed the seafront on D-Day. He additionally laid a wreath and honored 14,000 Canadians who stormed Juno Beach 80 years in the past on Thursday and delighted locals when he made a shock go to to the D-Day Museum in Arromanches, the place he spoke with veterans and obtained a heat welcome from well-wishers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Prince William stood in for King Charles on Thursday as two days of commemorations marking the eightieth anniversary of D-Day got here to an in depth. In one of the crucial important moments because the Prince of Wales, William stepped in for his father to affix world leaders together with President Joe Biden, French [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[3097,1583,5357,388,524,4258,1253,3908,2550,923],"class_list":{"0":"post-132425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip","8":"tag-anniversary","9":"tag-charles","10":"tag-dday","11":"tag-joins","12":"tag-king","13":"tag-leaders","14":"tag-prince","15":"tag-stands","16":"tag-william","17":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}