New Orleans was hit by a car-ramming attack on New Year’s Eve. A close friend of the British royal family was among the fourteen people who lost their lives following this tragedy.
As a crowd of revelers celebrated the New Year in the French Vieux Carré of New Orleans, a man driving a pickup-type vehicle mowed down several passers-by and fired a gun before being arrested. shot dead by authorities. The suspect, identified as a former American soldier named Shamsud-Din Jabbar, killed no less than fourteen people and injured more than thirty civilians. While the investigation continues across the Atlantic, King Charles had a tender thought for a 31-year-old Briton, who happened to be the stepson of the former governess of his sons William and Harryreports the BBC.
A close relative of the royal family among the victims of the New Orleans attack
A few days after the car-ramming attack which took place in the French Quarter of New Orleans, king Charles III “sent his condolences to the family of Edward Pettifer, 31, the stepson of Tiggy Legge-Bourke, the former nanny of Princes William and Harry.“ Roya Nikkhah, royal chronicler of the Timesnoted on his X account that the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II is “deeply saddened” by this news and that his son, the Prince of Wales, “was also informed.” The family of the young Briton confirmed his death in a press release. “The entire family is devastated by the tragic news of Ed’s death in New Orleans. He was a wonderful son, brother, grandson, nephew and friend to so many. He will be missed terribly to all. Our thoughts are with the other families who have lost a family member as a result of this terrible attack.”
Princes William and Harry face the loss of a family member
A few months earlier, Princes William and Harry mourned the disappearance of a member of their family. Although he lives today in the United States with his wife and two children, the author of Alternate returned to England last summer to attend the funeral of his uncle by marriage, Baron Robert Fellowes, at St. Mary’s Church in Snettisham. Prince Harry notably met his brother, with whom he has not had good relations for several years.
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