Harry's hush-hush VJ Day tribute to his grandfather

THE Duke of Sussex paid a poignant tribute to his grandfather Prince Philip, the late duke of Edinburgh, in a personal letter secretly left at Staffordshire's National Memorial Arboretum on the 80th anniversary of VJ Day.

- LAURA ELSTON News Reporter

Harry asked a friend to discreetly leave the note and a wreath of red poppies at the Burma Star Memorial on Friday, following the national commemorations attended by the King and Queen.

The letter was placed after Charles and Camilla had left to avoid distracting from the service which honoured the sacrifice of Second World War heroes who fought and died in the Pacific and Far East.

VJ Day, on August 15, marked the anniversary of Japan's surrender to the Allies following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, ending the six-year conflict.

Harry, who was thousands of miles away in California, wrote: "For me, this anniversary carries an added layer of meaning. My late grandfather, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, served in the Pacific campaign.