Royal experts have expressed their appreciation for King Charles and Kate Middleton, acknowledging their ability to set aside personal worries for the sake of the public.
Royal expert Phil Dampier shared this sentiment in a conversation with The Sun.
He described the “VE Day celebration” as an emotional and significant moment for the Royal Family.
“I thought it was a very, very poignant moment because this is the first time there hasn’t been a royal standing on that balcony to commemorate the VE Day since the end of the war,” he began.
“In other words with the passing of the Queen. A couple of years ago she was the last person who stood on that balcony with Winston Churchill at the end of the war to celebrate VE Day, and I think Charles would have been thinking about that. I think the other royals were thinking about that.”
And “I think Princess Anne would have been thinking about her mother and her father in particular and it was quite a poignant moment, because, you know, Prince Philip fought in the war.”
In addition, “the Queen obviously served in the war as well, and was there, and remembered it and lived through it,” he added. “And so there is the sadness at the passing of time that we’re losing that generation.”
Mr. Dampier also admitted, “And the next VE Day celebration very, very few of the veterans are still going to be with us sadly, and I think that really drove it home. You could see that the King was quite emotional. I thought Catherine, the Princess of Wales also looked quite emotional.”
Even though “they will have been thinking about their own personal battles with cancer, but really today was was all about the veterans, and it was all about thanking them for their service and thanking people who remembered, remembered the events of 80 years ago,” the expert concluded.
