LONDON – Britain’s Prince Charles will host French President Emmanuel Macron for a special celebration marking the 80th anniversary of Gen.
Charles de Gaulle’s defiant appeal to the French people to resist the Nazis during World War II.Charles and his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, will receive Macron at his Clarence House home with a Guard of Honor formed by Number 7 Company of the Coldstream Guards and their band.The event on Thursday commemorates De Gaulle’s “Apel’’ via a BBC broadcast to his countrymen on June 18, 1940, urging them to fight on.