Prince Charles made a definitive public statement on the crisis in Ukraine, a rare move for a member of the royal family.
made a definitive public statement on the crisis currently taking place in Ukraine in a rare move for a member of the royal family.Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
, to attend a council meeting where the seaside town will be conferred its status as a city. While there, he will also present the Freedom of the City, an honor given by a municipality to a valued member of its community, to the widow of Sir David Amess, the British MP who was fatally stabbed in a terrorist attack in October 2021. During his speech, Charles called Amess’s murder “an attack on democracy.
The royal went on to say, “What we saw in the terrible tragedy in Southend was an attack on democracy, on an open society, on freedom itself. We are seeing those same values under attack today in Ukraine in the most unconscionable way. In the stand we take here, we are in solidarity with all those who are resisting brutal aggression.”
Charles’s decision to take this stand in support of Ukraine comes shortly after both his sons also released statements on the matter. On Thursday, in response to Russianlaunching a large-scale invasion of the country, as well as missile strikes on its capital,
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