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King Charles III was on Saturday stated to be “deeply saddened” after police stated a British relative of his sons’ former nanny was among the many victims of the lethal truck-ramming assault in New Orleans.
Edward Pettifer, 31, who died within the atrocity, was the stepson of Prince William and Prince Harry’s former nanny Tiggy Pettifer.
It was “understood the King was… deeply saddened, and had been in contact with the household to share private condolences”, the UK’s Press Affiliation information company stated in a report.
Inheritor to the throne Prince William stated he and his spouse Catherine had additionally been “shocked and saddened by the tragic demise of Ed Pettifer”.
“Our ideas and prayers stay with the Pettifer household and all these harmless individuals who have been tragically impacted by this horrific assault,” he wrote on the couple’s Kensington Palace social media account.
Pettifer’s half-brother Tom is one in every of William’s godsons and was a web page boy at his wedding ceremony to Catherine, the Princess of Wales, in 2011.
In 1993, Charles employed Tiggy Legge-Bourke, now Pettifer, whose household had longstanding hyperlinks to the royals, as a nanny for William and his youthful brother Harry after his separation from their mom, Princess Diana.
“All the household are devastated on the tragic information of Ed’s demise in New Orleans. He was a beautiful son, brother, grandson, nephew, and a buddy to so many. We’ll all miss him terribly,” the Pettifer household stated in a press release.
On New 12 months’s Day a US military veteran, who the FBI says pledged loyalty to the Islamic State jihadist group, used a pickup truck to kill and wound revellers in New Orleans’s crowded French Quarter, earlier than being killed by police.
Overseas Secretary David Lammy stated he was “extraordinarily saddened” to study a British man had been amongst these killed within the assault.
“We’re supporting his household and stand united with the US towards terror threats,” he wrote on X.
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