In Pictures: Royals and world leaders mark D-Day 80th anniversary
The King and Queen joined veterans in France on the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings on Thursday.
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Commemorations for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings began on Thursday with a military piper playing a lament at sea at the exact moment of the beach invasion in France in 1944.
At dawn eight decades after Allied troops came ashore under gunfire on five code-named beaches in Normandy — Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword — the day of remembrance started.
Later, the King paid tribute to veterans at a national commemorative event in Normandy.
At Gold Beach in Arromanches, Major Trevor Macey-Lillie paid tribute to fallen veterans by playing Highland Laddie as he came ashore.
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