![]() ![]() Having stepped onto her balcony vantage point at seconds to 11am, just 25 minutes later the Queen will bow a second time to the Cenotaph before withdrawing to return home. The nations of the Commonwealth then help to complete the circle of poppy red and, in so doing their names remind us all what 'world war' really meant, as all these far flung countries were then part of Britain's old empire. Then the Queen's 13th Prime Minister, Theresa May, will lay the Government's wreath, as Churchill did at the start of her reign and as Lloyd George did at the first of these ceremonies in 1920. They continue to represent the generation of our parents, or grandparents, that heard the sirens and bombers over our cities, served in the Armed Services and must have endured the loss of countless friends.Īfter they will watch as their four children and two of their grandchildren add tributes to the gradual cascade of poppies around the Cenotaph's base. Image: Prince Charles will take the Queen's place in laying the tribute this yearĪfter all, the Queen and Prince Philip represent the wartime generation that fought and won freedom in the Second World War. This summer marked the end of his public life but Remembrance is one of those iconic annual ceremonies that both seem set on attending together. She is 91 and Prince Philip is well into his 97th year. ![]() ![]() We know why the Queen has made this decision this year. Throughout Sunday's brief ceremony, the Queen will be where she wanted to be, beside her husband. This will happen immediately after the Prince of Wales has placed the Queen's and before he returns to place his own iconic one, which is dominated with the three feathers badge of the Heir Apparent. On Sunday, it will be an Equerry who will do this for The Duke of Edinburgh. Meanwhile, she watched as her Scottish Equerry, who wasn't that much younger than her, stepped forward to put down her wreath. For half a century, this Royal widow would hold a studied gaze of reflection, seemingly lost in memories: possibly of her war leader husband, George VI, or her older brother, Fergus, who was killed at the Battle of Loos in 1915. ![]()
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