The royal family honoured those who lost their lives in conflict with a social media tribute on Wednesday, while the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester attended a remembrance service.
“On Armistice Day, we remember the service and sacrifice of all those who have lost their lives in conflict,” the royal family wrote.
The tribute also featured an extract from “In Flanders Fields”, the well-known First World War poem by Canadian military physician John McCrae.
The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester marked the occasion at a Service of Remembrance at the Armed Forces Memorial in the Royal British Legion National Remembrance Gardens. Their attendance honoured the service and sacrifice of the Armed Forces community, according to the royal family.
Earlier, on Sunday, November 8, King Charles and Prime Minister Andy Burnham led Britain’s Remembrance Sunday tributes at the Cenotaph on Whitehall in central London.
Charles, Prince William, Burnham and other politicians observed a two-minute silence before laying wreaths in memory of those killed in war. Queen Camilla and Kate, Princess of Wales, watched from the balcony of a government building.
The annual ceremony takes place on the second Sunday in November. It marks the end of the First World War and remembers those who died in both World Wars and subsequent conflicts.
