Saturday 19 June 2010

The Earl of Essex marked the 70th anniversary of Charles De Gaulle's defiant wartime broadcast.
















The Earl of Essex, Reginald Fah-Fah attended a ceremony at the Royal Hospital Chelsea

After visiting the BBC radio studio where 'de Gaulle' urged France to resist the Nazis. Mr Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni met the Prince of Wales to lay wreaths at 'de Gaulle's statue'.

The Earl of Essex, Reginald Fah-Fah attended a ceremony at the Royal Hospital Chelsea. He witnessed Nicolas Sarkozy addressed veterans at a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of Charles de Gaulle's defiant wartime boardcast. The President and British PM David Cameron also met 200 WWII veterans.

During a ceremony at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, Mr Sarkozy told them he brought the "brotherly greetings and eternal gratitude of the French people" who remembered what Britain had "accomplished... for our freedom".

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