King Charles announces important overseas trip alongside many more royals
The King will travel to Poland at the end of January to mark the 80th anniversary since the liberation of Auschwitz, Buckingham Palace has announced.
Charles will attend the commemoration service at the at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial on 27 January.
Holocaust Memorial Day marks the day in 1945 when soldiers of the Soviet Union liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
More than one million men, women and children were murdered at the concentration camp during its five years of operation.
Ahead of the trip, Charles hosted three organisations dedicated to educating future generations about the Holocaust at Buckingham Palace.
Speaking on the latest episode of HELLO!’s A Right Royal Podcast, The Telegraph’s royal editor Hannah Furness said: “This is such an important event, and the British Royal Family are so entrenched in the Holocaust Memorial project.
“The King has been really personally involved – he had those portraits done for the Royal Collection. And the Prince and Princess of Wales have done a lot of engagements with Holocaust survivors.”
Citing the late Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany in 2015, HELLO!’s Royal Editor Emily Nash said: “The royal family have taken [the Holocaust] as a thing that they want to encourage people to remember and pay tribute to.”
Listen to the full episode here…
