Prince William, Kate Middleton attend Manchester arena bombing memorial opening

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Prince William spoke of his own grief Tuesday as he gave a personal tribute to the families of 22 people who were killed when a suicide bomber targeted an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena five years ago.

William and his wife Kate, were attending the official opening of a public memorial in the city of Manchester, which comes ahead of the fifth anniversary of the terror attack on May 22, 2017.

The prince told families of those who died he knew that "the pain and the trauma felt by many has not gone away." Britain's Prince William gives a speech as he and his wife Kate the Duchess of Cambridge attend the launch of the Glade of Light Memorial, outside Manchester Cathedral, which commemorates the victims of a suicide bomb attack at a 2017 Ariana Grande concert, in Manchester, England, Tuesday, May 10, 2022.The memorial honours the 22 people whose lives were taken, as well as remembering everyone who was left injured or affected by the attack at Manchester Arena on May 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Jon Super, Pool) "As someone who lives with his own grief, I also know that what often matters most to the bereaved is that those we have lost are not forgotten," William said. "There is comfort in remembering.

In acknowledging that, while taken horribly soon, they lived." William was a teenager when his mother, Princess Diana, died in 1997 in a Paris car crash.