DETERMINED King Charles led D-Day commemorations despite being in hospital for cancer treatment less than 24 hours earlier, The Sun can reveal. The 75-year-old monarch was in a London hospital on Tuesday but remained keen to join veterans the next day and “lead from the front”. He travelled to Portsmouth on Wednesday morning and delivered an eight-minute address that left tears in Queen Camilla’s eye. On medical advice, his appearance was reduced by 45 minutes. But he still found the time to mingle with some of the 21 D-Day heroes invited to the televised event. The “carefully calibrated” arrangements meant Charles was then able to travel on 125 miles to Normandy for 80th anniversary ceremonies. There — aided again by Camilla — he gave a passionate speech at the British Normandy Memorial where the names of 22,442 heroes who died are etched. He hailed the generation who “did not flinch” when the moment to act came. And he urged the world to learn from the past,
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