Swan Hellenic welcomes aboard Sir Trevor McDonald OBE on the D-Day anniversary cruise

On June 4 2014, Minerva will set sail to commemorate the 70^th D-Day anniversary and welcomes aboard celebrated news anchor, Sir Trevor McDonald OBE.

A unique experience to tempt a cruise booking from even a ‘new-to-cruise’ customer, Sir Trevor will be both speaking on board and taking part in ‘An Audience with Sir Trevor MacDonald’, a Question and Answer session hosted by Minerva’s Cruise Director.

Colin Wilson, Group Sales Director at All Leisure Group, said ‘We are thrilled to have such an enigmatic speaker join us on board this cruise and hope agents agree that Sir Trevor will provide a unique insight on what is set to be a very special cruise’.

Travelling aboard the ‘D-Day 70^th Anniversary’ cruise, Sir Trevor will offer an intellectually stimulating contrast to the powerful sights of this commemorative cruise.

A journey around some of the most notable sites of the First and Second World Wars in Northern France including Dunkirk, Ypres and St Mere Eglise, the D-Day 70^th Anniversary cruise, sails alongside the Normandy Beaches on 6^th June and will host a Service of Remembrance. Prices for this cruise startfrom £2,435 per person and departs 4^th June 2014. Sir Trevor will be joined by battlefield historian Dr Peter Caddick-Adams who will also be able to offer insightful talks on the D-Day landings.

Sir Trevor is the infamous anchor of ITN News and has conducted some of the most important interviews of his time. Along with interviewing Libyan President Colonel Gadaffi and President Bill Clinton, he conducted the first British television interview with Nelson Mandela upon his release and the only British television interview with Saddam Hussein.