King Charles III honoured fallen service personnel in central London on Sunday as the Princess of Wales looked on, in a further sign the royal family is slowly returning to normal at the end of a year in which two of the most popular royals were side-lined by cancer.
Remembrance Sunday is a totemic event in the UK, with the monarch leading senior royals, political leaders, including Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his eight living predecessors, and envoys from the Commonwealth countries in laying wreaths at the Cenotaph, the Portland stone memorial that serves as the focal point for honouring the nation’s war dead.
It is held on the second Sunday of November to mark the signing of the armistice to end World War I “on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” in 1918.
Dressed in sombre black, Kate, watched the ceremony from a balcony of the nearby Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, as is tradition.
Queen Camilla, who would normally be standing next to the princess, was not present as she is recovering from a chest infection.
It is the first time since the start of the year that Kate is carrying out two consecutive days of public official engagements.
On Saturday, she attended the Royal British Legion Festival Of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall.
Following the wreath-laying, around 10,000 veterans, including those who have fought in wars this century, notably in Afghanistan and Iraq, marched past the Cenotaph.
With the passage of time, there were only a handful of World War II veterans present.
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