King Charles III leads Britain's Remembrance Sunday ceremony for war dead

King Charles III has led Britain’s yearly ceremonial of remembrance for warfare dormant successful London

LONDON -- Thousands of subject personnel, veterans and members of the nationalist gathered nether bluish skies Sunday successful London arsenic King Charles III led Britain’s yearly ceremonial of remembrance for the country’s warfare dead.

As Parliament’s Big Ben doorbell tolled 11 a.m., the assemblage fell inactive for 2 minutes of silence, breached by a azygous artillery blast and Royal Marines buglers sounding “The Last Post.”

The 76-year-old king, dressed successful the azygous of an service tract marshal, laid a wreath of reddish insubstantial poppies connected a achromatic inheritance astatine the basal of the Cenotaph warfare memorial adjacent Parliament. Erected implicit a period agone to grant the British and allied troops killed successful World War I, it has go the absorption of yearly ceremonies for members of subject and civilian services killed successful that warfare and consequent conflicts.

The nationalist ceremonial of remembrance is held each twelvemonth connected the nearest Sunday to the day of the extremity of World War I connected Nov. 11, 1918, astatine 11 a.m. Similar memorial services are held successful dozens of towns and cities crossed Britain and astatine U.K. subject bases overseas.

A subject set played arsenic heir to the throne Prince William followed his begetter successful laying a wreath connected the elemental Portland chromatic monument inscribed with the words “the glorious dead.”

Other members of the royal household followed, including the king’s youngest brother, Prince Edward — but not former prince Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. The king stripped his member Andrew of his titles past period and evicted him from his royal mansion implicit his narration with convicted enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Wreaths were besides laid by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, different governmental leaders and diplomats from Commonwealth nations.

Queen Camilla, the Princess of Wales and different members of the royal household watched from their accepted spot connected a balcony of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

Many of the wreaths were made of poppies, and astir radical successful attendance wore insubstantial poppies connected their lapels. The scarlet flowers that bloomed connected the muddy battlefields and makeshift graveyards of bluish France and Belgium during World War I — made celebrated by the poem “In Flanders Fields” — person go a awesome of remembrance successful Britain and different countries.

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