Princess to Attend Bushfire Memorial

It is good to see the British royalty sending a representative to mourn the victims of Victoria’s devastating bushfires this month:

PRINCESS Anne will travel to Australia to attend Sunday’s national day of mourning for those who died in the Victoria fires
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A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said Anne was cancelling other engagements to personally represent her mother, the Queen, in Melbourne.

“She’s personally representing the Queen, who has asked her to go,” the spokeswoman said.

“The following day she will make some sort of visits to see for herself the devastation.”

It was yet to be decided which communities Princess Anne would visit.

Thousands of Victorians will gather in Melbourne and a string of bushfire scorched townships as part of the memorial events for at least 201 people who died in the February 7 infernos.

A National Day of Mourning – Together for Victoria – will be held at Rod Laver Arena and surrounds at 11am (AEDT) on Sunday to honour the victims and to recognise the courage and efforts of emergency service workers.

It will be hosted by ABC journalist Ian Henderson and televised live on the three commercial networks as well as the ABC.  [AFP]

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