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King Charles III, Kate remember England’s fallen service personnel

Royals slowly return to duty after being sidelined by cancer

By Associated Press
Published: November 10, 2024, 1:55pm
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Tower Bridge in London lit up red for Remembrance Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024.
Tower Bridge in London lit up red for Remembrance Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024. (Jordan Pettitt/PA via AP) Photo Gallery

LONDON — King Charles III led the nation Sunday in a two-minute silence in remembrance of fallen service personnel in central London as the Princess of Wales looked on, a further sign that the royal family is slowly returning to normal at the end of a year in which two of the most popular royals were sidelined by cancer.

Remembrance Sunday is a major event in the U.K., 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 honoring the nation’s war dead.

The service 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. Across the U.K., services are conducted at the same time in memory of the dead.

After the two-minute silence, buglers from the Royal Marines played the “Last Post,” and Charles led the wreath-laying part of the service.

The 75-year-old king laid a wreath of poppies at the base of the Cenotaph in recognition of the fallen from conflicts dating back to World War I.

His eldest son and the heir to the throne, Prince William, left his own floral tribute, featuring the Prince of Wales’ feathers and a new ribbon in Welsh red.

Dressed in somber black, his wife, Kate, watched on from a balcony of the nearby Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, as is tradition. Queen Camilla, who would normally be standing next to the princess, wasn’t present as she recovered from a chest infection.

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