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pipes play. events commemorating the anniversary of d day will continue throughout the day. at 9.30 the king and queen willjoin veterans for the first ever national commemoration here at the british normandy memorial. we ll be ending a little earlier, so you can follow the event live on bbc one from 8.30. we will try to give you a sense of the occasion here at the british memorial. you can see the weather is
beyond,is the setting today, with the sea beyond, is an extraordinary place. it is, and you cannot help but be moved on a day like today being at a place like this. i had a bit of time earlier to go across and watch the sunrise over the memorial this morning and it was an incredibly emotional moment on a personal level to be her on this day to see something as significant as that and it is a beautiful memorial. it is brand new and was only completed in 2021 and there had not been that focal point here in normandy before that for the british veterans to come to, so it has real poignancy today that the major british commemoration event can be here in this new memorial, the first time they ve hosted an event of this kind and of course the king and queen believe they the commemorations and it was really important for the king he was here. it s been a bumpy few months for him since his cancer diagnosis and their diary was cleared and engagements cancelled but this was the one thing he wante
normandy, veterans, who are dwindling in number, and their family and friends were given a focus, somewhere to pay respects. this is gold beach, one of the five on d day which where divided up between the allies. a huge expanse of sand. the standing with giants installation represents those under british command who were killed on that first day. the memorial carries the names of 22,442 people. sometimes difficult to get your head around that number and that is one of the reasons why this installation has been so successful here at the memorial. this year, the 80th anniversary of d day, is only the third time veterans will have been able to come on the 6th ofjune to
see. the size of the allied invasion was staggering and difficult to comprehend, especially on a beautiful sunny day like today. it is appropriate to come here and perhaps take a moment to bow your head just as the standing with giants statues are. i have had the opportunity this morning to spend a moment, and this place is very special, the memorial itself, the names on the memorial, and you can take a moment to think about what happened in the past. clearly front and centre of everything which has been happening alongside these locations are the people, the veterans who were involved. we will be hearing from those this morning as well. events
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