The family also released the king’s official address, in which he marked the words of his grandfather, King George VI.
“For the millions of families gathered around their wireless sets, and for their loved ones still serving far from home, it was the message a battle-weary world had long prayed for —’The war is over,’ declared my grandfather, King George VI, in his address to the nation and Commonwealth on V-J Day 80 years ago today—four short words after six long years of bloodshed, fear and suffering,” King Charles says.