King Charles led the silence and laid the first wreath at the national Remembrance Sunday service on 8 November. About 10,000 veterans then joined a march through London, with more than 300 armed forces and civilian organizations represented.
King Charles led a two-minute silence and laid the first wreath at the Cenotaph in London on 8 November, as the UK held its national Remembrance Sunday service for the war dead.
The ceremony follows a tradition rooted in the armistice between the Allies and Germany that took effect on 11 November 1918, ending hostilities on the Western Front of the First World War.
Prince William joined his father at the ceremony, wearing the black uniform of a lieutenant colonel of the Household Cavalry. A gun marked the end of the silence, and Royal Marines buglers then played the Last Post. Afterward, about 10,000 veterans took part in a march-past representing more than 300 armed forces and civilian organizations, The Guardian said. Crowds applauded as some veterans waved or saluted; some older participants used wheelchairs or mobility scooters.
The oldest of about a dozen Second World War veterans at the service was Jeffrey Brereton, who volunteered for the Royal Air Force in 1940 at age 19 and worked as a mechanic on Hurricane aircraft during the Battle of Britain.
The youngest marcher was 8-year-old Ronan Doncaster, who walked in honor of his father, a guardsman in the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards who died in April 2024.
The first official Armistice Day events, held in the grounds of Buckingham Palace on 11 November 1919, included a two-minute silence for those who died in the war and those left behind. Beginning in 1939, Britain moved the silence to the nearest Sunday to avoid disrupting wartime production; the observance became Remembrance Sunday.
The Guards described the tankers as “non-compliant.” Their account comes as Iran blocks the waterway and the US maintains a naval blockade on Iranian ports.
The UK also observes a separate two-minute silence on Armistice Day, 11 November, at 11:00 UK time [15:00 Yerevan time]. The Royal British Legion invites the public to take two minutes to pause and remember.
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