'Because we can't be together, everyone's still thinking of you all today, and are very proud of everything you've all achieved.'
May 12, 2020 - 09:44 BST Gemma Strong on 12 May 2020 Royal fan favourites the Duchess of Cambridge and the Countess of Wessex joined forces this week for a very worthy cause. Kate and Sophie teamed up to make a series of conference calls to nurses around the Commonwealth to thank them for their hard work during the coronavirus pandemic. Their sweet gesture was in honour of International Nurses Day, which takes place every year on 12 May, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth.
Just last week, Sophie teamed up with TV stars Ant and Dec to formally open the new NHS Nightingale Hospital North East, in Sunderland, via video message. Kate, meanwhile, delighted WWII veterans on Friday, when she and her husband Prince William joined in VE Day celebrations at an East Sussex care home. Champagne was flowing as the royal couple listened to the residents as they reminisced about the day the war ended in Europe on 8 May 1945.
The royal mum also revealed during the video call that her eldest children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, had been asked by their teachers at Thomas's School in Battersea to learn Dame Vera Lynn's famous wartime anthem. She said:"The school has set all the children a challenge and they're currently trying to learn the lyrics to the song We'll Meet Again... so it's been really lovely having that playing every day.
MORE: All the times Kate Middleton has shared her personal photographs of George, Charlotte and Louis William praised the efforts of the wartime generation, and told them:"Because we can't be together, everyone's still thinking of you all today, and are very proud of everything you've all achieved."
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