80th Anniversary Ceremony
Damian attended the D-Day 80: Remembering the Normandy Landings anniversary ceremony at Royal Albert Hall on Thursday, June 6, 2024 in the Royal Albert Hall auditorium, which was presented by Davina McCall.
The ceremony was a unique evening of music-led storytelling reflecting on the beginning of the end of the Second World War. The anniversary event featured the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra conducted by Mike Dixon and Veterans of the Normandy Campaign, plus performances by Katherine Jenkins, Emeli Sand, Lulu and lead vocalist of The D-Day Darlings, Katie Ashby. The show featured untold personal stories through letters and diary entries read by famous faces from stage and screen to commemorate the 80th anniversary.
The event was filmed for television, and broadcast on ITV at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday June 9, 2024.
The charity partner for this event was the British Normandy Memorial, which opened in June 2021. The Memorial, which stands in Normandy overlooking Gold Beach, holds the names of the 22,442 service personnel serving under British Command who died on D-Day and during the Battle of Normandy.
D-Day 80: Remembering the Normandy Landings was sponsored by Ancestry and produced jointly by The Makers Of and TBI Media.
Source: Royal Albert Hall