Less than a week after the car-ramming terrorist attack in New Orleans, in the United States, which left around ten dead, the profile of the victims is becoming clearer. One of them was notably linked to the royal family, British police announced this Saturday.
The bereaved king. A 31-year-old British man, who was the stepson of the former housekeeper of Princes William and Harry, is among 14 people killed on New Year’s Eve in the Islamist car-ramming attack in New Orleans, British police announced on Saturday.
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 Princes William and Harry’s former governess, Tiggy Legge-Bourke, who is also known as Alexandra Pettifer.
The royal family informed
Alexandra Pettifer married Charles Pettifer, Edward’s father, in the late 1990s. Prince William was also informed of the death of Edward Pettifer, according to the PA agency. The Metropolitan Police said it supported the victim’s family and helped them with the procedure for repatriating the body to the United Kingdom. Edward Pettifer’s family is “devastated by the tragic news of Ed’s death.”
-The Prince of Wales, William, and his wife Kate, for their part, indicated that they were “shocked and saddened by the tragic death of Ed Pettifer”. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the Pettifer family and all the innocent people who were tragically affected by this horrible attack,” the heir to the throne further explained in a text relayed on social networks.
“We will miss him terribly. Our thoughts are with other families who have lost a family member following this terrible attack,” she added, quoted in the Metropolitan Police press release.
Fourteen people were killed, and around thirty others injured, in the attack which occurred in the tourist French quarter of New Orleans, in the south of the United States, in the midst of New Year’s festivities. recall, a former American soldier, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, “inspired” by Daesh, rushed his car into the crowd. He was later killed in exchanges of fire with police.
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