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Prince William and King Charles Celebrate Britain’s Caribbean Community: A Tribute to the Windrush Generation
Britain’s Caribbean community has been celebrated by Prince William and King Charles, who have recognized their invaluable contribution to the country.
The occasion was marked on Thursday, as Prince William commemorated the 75th anniversary of the arrival of 1,027 Caribbean people on the Empire Windrush ship in 1948.
In an Instagram video released on the day, he spoke about the hardships they faced while settling in the UK in the 1950s and 1960s, and praised their role in rebuilding the country after World War II.
Many of the young people on the historic voyage knew Britain well, having fought alongside them in World War II, as Prince William noted.
“They and the generation of Commonwealth citizens who followed in their footsteps chose this country to start new lives,” he said.
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King Charles echoed these sentiments, acknowledging the difficulties that the Windrush generation had faced, but also noting that “life did indeed change for them and their families.”
The contributions made by the Windrush generation to Britain cannot be overstated, according to Prince William.
“We are a better people today because the children and the grandchildren of those who came in 1948 have stayed and become part of who we are in 2023,” he said.
“And for that, we are forever grateful.”
The post was captioned, “Today we celebrate Windrush Day, a defining moment in our nation’s history.
We honour the extraordinary contributions and resilience of the Windrush generation.”
Last year, Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton participated in the unveiling of a memorial honouring the Windrush generation.
The Prince used the occasion to recognize how the past weighs heavily on the present amid the controversy that followed the couple’s Caribbean tour in March 2022.
“My family have been proud to celebrate this for decades, whether that be through support from my father on Windrush Day, or more recently during my grandmother’s Platinum Jubilee, as people from all communities and backgrounds came together to acknowledge all that has changed over the past 70 years and look to the future,” Prince William said at the event.
In addition to Prince William’s tribute, King Charles commissioned a series of portraits to capture the Windrush generation.
The ten portraits, featuring people in their 80s and 90s, are on display at Palace of Holy Rude House in Edinburgh, Scotland, and will relocate to the National Portrait Gallery in London in October.
In a foreword to the catalogue, King Charles wrote that history is finally beginning to accord a rightful place to those men and women of the Windrush generation.
“The ten portraits in this series, together with the tributes to other members of that indomitable generation, are a small way to honour their remarkable legacy,” he said.
It is crucially important that we should truly see and hear these pioneers who stepped off the Empire Windrush at Tilbury in June 1948, only a few months before King Charles was born, he added.
“Those who followed over the decades have made an immeasurable difference to this country.”
The Windrush generation has been an integral part of Britain’s history, and their contributions will never be forgotten.
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