Special thanks for four Korean War veterans

THE King and Queen met four Korean War veterans yesterday to thank them for their service.

- Richard Palmer

At the end of the three-day visit by South Korea's president Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Kim Keon Hee, Charles and Camilla marked the 70th anniversary of the end of the war between China and Soviet-backed North and UN-supported South Korea.

They met the four Chelsea Pensioners, all in their nineties, in the Marble Corridor at Buckingham Palace shortly after the departure of the president and first lady, who thanked them at Westminster Abbey on Tuesday for helping to save their country. from a Communist takeover.

Peter Fullelove, 90, a veteran of the Black Watch regiment, made the King laugh by discussing his problems as a parachutist finding a clearing in the jungle during operations in Malaya.