Royal visit for Liberation Day
THE Earl and Countess of Wessex are set to visit Guernsey for Liberation Day this year.
While the Queen's youngest son and his wife have both visited Guernsey separately in recent years, this will be the first joint visit since 2009.
They will be attending events on Liberation Day, which marks the 77th Anniversary of the end of the Occupation.
They will then travel to Sark for its Liberation Day on 10th May, as well as Alderney.
'I am delighted that The Earl and Countess of Wessex will join islanders in marking this important day for Guernsey,' said Guernsey Bailiff Mr Richard McMahon.
'It will be a day of particular importance for those who were evacuated, lived through the Occupation, or were deported. I am further pleased that Their Royal Highnesses will also be able to help the Bailiwick celebrate the major milestone of Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee.'
Details of the visit will be published in due course.
The Earl of Wessex is fourteenth in line for the throne, while the couple's children are fifteenth and sixteenth.
The couple last visited Guernsey together in July 2009, but the Countess visited in May 2015 for the 70th anniversary of Liberation, while the Earl visited Guernsey and Alderney in 2016 to mark 60 years of the Duke of Edinburgh awards scheme.
