1000’s gathered in Whitehall right this moment for the annual Remembrance Sunday service. 
In the present day was historic, because it was the primary Remembrance Sunday with out Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, who thought-about it one of the vital dates on her calendar. Beneath, HM on the 2020 service. She was unable to attend final 12 months’s service due to a again pressure. 
Extra from this BBC Information story.
A lot was the identical right here right this moment as in many years previous; the music, the flags, the prayers, wreath upon wreath of poppies blazing pink in opposition to gray stone.
However one factor was totally different and that distinction was on the minds of many; the King led this ceremony, a ceremony so near the center of the late Queen and one which she attended into her nineties.
A video from the BBC’s protection of right this moment’s service.
HM Queen Elizabeth II laid a wreath at The Cenotaph yearly of her reign till 2017 when she requested the then Prince of Wales on her behalf. Listed below are some touching moments relationship again 70 years of HM collaborating in Remembrance commemorations.
HM Queen Elizabeth II 1926-2022 pic.twitter.com/oXT91TeO9K
— BBC Studios Occasions Productions (@BBCS_Events) November 13, 2022
There was some shifting of locations for royals watching from the balconies on the FCDO (Overseas, Commonwealth and Improvement Workplace) Constructing. You possibly can simply see (left to proper) the Gloucesters and the Countess of Wessex on the left, the Queen Consort and Princess of Wales within the heart, and the Duke of Kent and Vice-Admiral Sir Tim Laurence on the far proper. 
Extra ideas on this 12 months’s service through The Night Normal’s story.
Chief of the Defence Employees, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, stated there’s a “particular poignancy” to Remembrance Sunday this 12 months given the Queen’s dying and the warfare in Ukraine. In an interview broadcast on Sky’s Sophy Ridge On Sunday programme, he stated: “I believe Remembrance Sunday is at all times poignant. I believe it’s poignant for the entire nation, this particular second after we pause to mirror on the sacrifice and dedication of others to supply our freedom right this moment.”
“I believe there’s a particular poignancy this 12 months with each the lack of Her Majesty, one other lack of a Second World Conflict veteran.”
The brand new Queen Consort and new Princess of Wales.
The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and the Countess of Wessex. 
Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence and the Duke of Kent. 
One other view of the Queen Consort and Princess of Wales. 
A view of the scene on the Cenotaph from above. 
Extra on the occasion’s origins from the Royal British Legion.
The primary Remembrance Parade passed off in Whitehall on 19 July 1919 – the Cenotaph then being a short lived wooden and plaster development. In his message to the individuals of the Empire on 6 November 1919, King George V requested {that a} Two Minute Silence be noticed on the eleventh hour of the eleventh month.
Beneath, crowds gathered for right this moment’s service.
“In a ceremony on the Cenotaph, the point of interest of the nation’s homage, Members of the Royal Household unite with others in hundreds of comparable ceremonies throughout the UK and worldwide in holding two minutes of silence at 11am,” per the Royal Household website.
Beneath, King Charles leads the household contingent out to the Cenotaph. Behind the King, Prince William, Prince Edward, and Princess Anne. 
One other view.
The King and his sister on the foot of the Cenotaph, the warfare memorial positioned in Whitehall, London. (Cenotaph means “empty tomb.) 
Forward of right this moment’s service, the Royal Household posted on social media in regards to the wreath-laying custom.
A Wreath is laid on the Cenotaph by His Majesty The King.
This custom was began by King George V in 1920, who unveiled the Cenotaph, and has been continued by each Monarch since.#LestWeForget#RemembranceSunday pic.twitter.com/Y7NG3Bz7VI
— The Royal Household (@RoyalFamily) November 13, 2022
The King locations his wreath on the foot of the monument. 
Whats up stories it’s made with “…poppies mounted on an association of black leaves, as is conventional for the sovereign, with the ribbon bearing the King’s racing colors of scarlet, purple and gold.” A more in-depth have a look at the cardboard which says, “In Reminiscence of the Wonderful Useless, Charles R.” 
A video.
King Charles III lays the primary wreath at The Cenotaph, adopted by the wreath of the Queen Consort, and HRH The Prince of Wales. @RoyalFamily#LestWeForget #RemembranceSunday pic.twitter.com/Pj3menqe94
— BBC Studios Occasions Productions (@BBCS_Events) November 13, 2022
Per Buckingham Palace, the Queen Consort’s wreath bore “Her Majesty’s racing colors, inherited from her grandfather, and echoes the wreath of the earlier Queen Consort, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mom.” Extra in regards to the wreath laid by the brand new Prince of Wales from this City and Nation story.
Prince William, now the Prince of Wales, laid the wreath beforehand utilized by his father that includes the Prince of Wales feathers and with a brand new ribbon in Welsh pink. He laid the wreath because the Princess of Wales watched from the balcony.
Prince William returns to the formation after laying his wreath. 
The Princess of Wales watching the service. 
Prince Edward. 
Princess Anne after she positioned her wreath on the Cenotaph. 
Among the many former Prime Ministers in attendance, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. 
In addition to Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, and Theresa Could. 
The present Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak (r), is seen right here with Labour Celebration Chief Sir Keir Starmer (l). 
Amongst these watching from the FCDO (Overseas, Commonwealth and Improvement Workplace) Constructing, Sir Tony Blair’s spouse Cherie Blair (left), British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s spouse Akshata Murty (2nd from the left), British former Prime Minister Liz Truss’ husband Hugh O’Leary (2nd from the correct), and former Prime Minister Theresa Could’s husband Philip Could (proper). 
One other view of the Queen Consort and Princess of Wales. 
After the service concludes, it’s time for the Royal British Legion march previous. This contains near 10,000 veterans. 
It is a custom of each Remembrance Sunday. Beneath, Chelsea Pensioners. 
Among the Pensioners gathering earlier than the march previous. 
Many convey wreaths to be laid on the Cenotaph. 
The Royal British Legion stories, “One of many oldest marching veterans this 12 months is 101-year-old WW2 D-Day Veteran Stanley Elliss who’s marching for the primary time, and the youngest is Luca-Beau, eight, who will likely be carrying a wreath on behalf of Scotty’s Little Troopers and remembering her father.”
On this picture, you see 99-year-old D-Day veteran Joe Cattini. A few of chances are you’ll keep in mind assembly Joe in yesterday’s publish after we confirmed him visiting the Fields of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey. 
There have been about 300 totally different Armed Forces and civilian associations collaborating in right this moment’s march. 
The route goes from Whitehall, south in the direction of Parliament Sq. then turns proper into Nice George Road and proper once more into Horse Guards Highway.
This appear to be a service canine in coaching being very well-behaved. 
And a reward for the great boy or lady.
It was a sea of faces and uniforms. 
The route ends at Horse Guards Parade, the place Prince Edward was readily available to take the salute. On the left, you see the UK Secretary of State for Defence, Ben Wallace. On the correct, the President of the Royal British Legion, Lieutenant Basic James Bashall. 
A 1:30 video from the BBC as the ultimate marchers move the Cenotaph.
Poignant phrases from David Dimbleby who brings the Remembrance commemorations to a detailed. Thanks to everybody who took half right this moment. To the veterans who got here from everywhere in the world, the general public who lined the streets and people who watched at house. #RemembranceSunday #LestWeForget pic.twitter.com/dyOenP8hiO
— BBC Studios Occasions Productions (@BBCS_Events) November 13, 2022
And as soon as once more this 12 months, Black Cab drivers are offering free rides to veterans. Extra from Taxi Level UK:
A whole lot of London Cab drivers will volunteer their spare time to assist the free Poppy Cabs Service, which transports veterans across the Capital to attend companies at The Cenotaph and take part within the Remembrance Sunday Parade
Poppy Cabs is funded solely by the drivers, usually accompanied by household and buddies as helpers, who present their taxis freed from cost.
This video exhibits among the cabs.
Poppy Cabs able to serve our great, heroic veterans
@PoppyCabs @TaxiCharity pic.twitter.com/7IZtN1wpD4
— SEAN PAUL DAY ???? (@seanpaulday) November 13, 2022
Now for our have a look at what the Princess of Wales wore for right this moment’s solemn service. 
This view provides a extra detailed view.
The Princess might have worn a Philip Treacy hat.
The Princess introduced again the pearl and diamond earrings that belonged to Diana, Princess of Wales.
The Artwork Deco Diamond-Set Brooch is an openworked design that includes spherical and baguette-cut diamonds with a spherical brilliant-cut diamond within the heart. The piece is described as “a classically Artwork Deco design, with geometric shapes and high-quality openwork platinum set all through with energetic diamonds. This lovely piece was made in round 1920 and captures the glamour and magnificence of the Jazz Age.” Situated in Mayfair, Bentley and Skinner is a Royal Warrant holder specializing in classic and vintage jewellery.
The Princess wore three paper poppies. The next is from a Remembrance publish a number of years again, however it nonetheless applies: “There may be at all times hypothesis in regards to the variety of poppies worn by the Duchess and any significance connected to that quantity. Here’s a principle many have prompt as detailed on this Grazia story:
Some theories recommend every poppy stands for a special department of the army. Others say that it’s simply simpler to see a big clump of flowers than a singular one. And a 3rd principle speculates that she would possibly put on the poppy trio to honor her great-grandmother’s three brothers who died throughout World Conflict I.”
The Princess carried her suede Mulberry clutch once more, proven under as carried to a different occasion. 
In the present day I had a few questions in regards to the late Queen’s cipher nonetheless getting used on army uniforms. Extra from Gordan Rayner’s Telegraph piece:
All members of the Armed Forces on parade on the Cenotaph wore the initials of the late Queen, together with the King himself and different members of the Royal household. At subsequent 12 months’s Cenotaph service, and for years to come back, some army personnel will likely be sporting the King’s cypher whereas others will nonetheless be sporting the late Queen’s.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence stated that the swap to the King’s cypher will likely be a gradual one, with particular person regiments and different army models introducing it in their very own time.
Beneath, closeups from right this moment’s service displaying the cipher on the King’s uniform (l), Prince William’s uniform (c), and the portion of the King’s new cipher that may ultimately be seen on uniforms. 
Extra from The Telegraph story.
King Charles, who famously abhors waste, seems to be in no hurry to switch his late mom’s cypher on his personal uniform. On the Cenotaph Queen Elizabeth’s initials featured on the epaulettes of the overcoat that he wore as a part of his Discipline Marshal’s uniform, and a spokesman for the King stated that no resolution had but been taken on when adjustments to his uniforms can be made.
I’ll shut with another picture of the Princess right this moment. 
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VIDEOS:
The BBC provides about 4 minutes of protection right here, together with the 2-minute silence.
UK falls silent on Remembrance Sunday because the King leads the nation in honouring servicemen and girls who died in previous conflictshttps://t.co/a8KuGMochy pic.twitter.com/N649FuUsfG
— BBC Information (UK) (@BBCNews) November 13, 2022
The Royal Household Channel has greater than 5 minutes of protection on this video.
