King Charles III contacted the victim’s family to offer his condolences.
A 31-year-old Briton, stepson of the former governess of Princes William and Harry, is one of 14 people killed on New Year’s Eve in the Islamist car ramming attack in New Orleans, the police announced on Saturday. British police.
Charles III is “deeply saddened” by the death of Edward Pettifer, the British PA agency reported. The king contacted the victim’s family to offer his condolences.
Edward Pettifer was the stepson of Prince William and Harry’s former governess, Tiggy Legge-Bourke, also known as Alexandra Pettifer. She married Charles Pettifer, Edward’s father, in the late 1990s. Prince William was also informed of Edward Pettifer’s death, according to the PA. The Metropolitan Police said they had supported the victim’s family and helped them with the process of repatriating the body to the UK.
We will miss him terribly.
The family
Edward Pettifer’s family is “devastated by the tragic news of Ed’s death”. “We will miss him terribly. Our hearts go out to other families who have lost a family member as a result of this terrible attack.“, she added, quoted in the Metropolitan Police press release.
Fourteen people were killed, and around thirty others killed, in the attack in the French tourist district of New Orleans, in the south of the United States, in the middle of the New Year celebration. A former American soldier, Shamsud -Din Jabbar, “inspired” by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS), drove his car into the crowd. He was later killed in exchanges of fire with police.
