In Italy, a Canadian has a ‘very humbling experience’ meeting with King Charles [Video]

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After you’ve met someone briefly, there can be that moment when you think: There was something I didn’t get a chance to say.

Maj. Casey Anderson, a military intelligence officer in the Canadian Armed Forces, had that thought after he chatted with King Charles and received a King’s Coronation Medal from him recently in the Italian coastal city of Ravenna.

Charles was in Ravenna commemorating the 80th anniversary of the area’s liberation during the Second World War, a military effort in which both Canadian and British forces played a role.

In 1944, Anderson’s grandfather “was wounded liberating the city of Ravenna,” Anderson said via Zoom from Italy, where he is stationed at NATO’s Allied Joint Force Command Naples.

Anderson’s grandfather didn’t actually make it right into Ravenna during that military campaign,

“And so [that …