Camilla joined The Royal Lancers in a conference call for a virtual “Tank Tea”. During a high-spirited conversation focused on tea and its importance even during military service, the Duchess of Cornwall joked about eventually celebrating the end of the pandemic.
Before leaving the video call, Camilla said: “I am going to go and have a proper cut of tea myself.”
One of the veterans included in the cheerful engagement said: “We’ll celebrate when we are all free again.”
To which Camilla replied: “We’ll probably not celebrate with a cup of tea, we might have something stronger.
“We will toast the end of it, at some point”.
During the call, Camilla and the veterans recalled the World War II battle of El Alamein in Egypt, fought also by her father Bruce Shand, and the time she visited the Commonwealth War Graves there in 2006.
During her emotional visit, Camilla paid tribute to the fallen in that battle by laying flowers on their tombs – a gesture her father had wanted to do.
She recalled: “From the minute we were driving along that coastline, I had a huge lump in my throat.
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“And when you get out and see those graves stretching on into the horizon, it’s incredibly moving.
“It was almost a sort of deja-vu, I almost felt as though I’d been there.
“I could almost feel… or hear the guns in the background and the noise going on.
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“I was speechless, which doesn’t happen very often, but I really was.
“I really was left speechless and quite tearful.
“I remember dropping those flowers on the graves.
“It was always something [her father] he really, really wanted to do himself.
“I felt I’d sort of tied up the end of his sort of military…his war, really.”
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