Britain's King Charles leads Remembrance Sunday service for first time as monarch - CNN

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King Charles III is starring Britain’s yearly Remembrance Sunday work for the archetypal clip arsenic monarch.

The King is attending the work alongside Camilla, the Queen Consort and different members of the royal household astatine The Cenotaph successful cardinal London.

The King laid a caller wreath astatine the Cenotaph, the plan of which pays tribute to the wreath of his grandfather, King George VI, and Queen Elizabeth II.

The wreath’s poppies are mounted connected an statement of achromatic leaves, arsenic is traditional, and its ribbon bears the King’s racing colors of scarlet, purple and gold.

Camilla viewed the infinitesimal from the balcony of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. A wreath was laid connected her behalf for the archetypal time.

The King and Queen Consort’s wreaths were accompanied by handwritten cards bearing their caller cyphers.

A nationalist two-minute soundlessness was held astatine 11 a.m. section clip (6 a.m. ET), marked by the tolling of Big Ben – which has present officially returned to use aft a five-year restoration project.

Other members of the royal household attending the work see William and Kate, the Prince and Princess of Wales, Edward and Sophie, the Earl and Countess of Wessex, and Princess Anne.

The lawsuit Sunday besides featured a march past by immoderate 10,000 Royal British Legion veterans, including World War Two veterans and those who person served successful conflicts since.

The yearly work is held connected the Sunday closest to November 11 – the time World War I ended successful 1918.

The lawsuit commemorates each those who person died successful conflicts.

On Saturday evening, members of the royal household including Charles, Camilla, William and Kate attended the yearly Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance astatine the Royal Albert Hall. A video tribute was paid to Queen Elizabeth successful the people of the event, which besides commemorated 40 years since the Falklands war.

Charles, 73, became Britain’s monarch pursuing the decease of his parent successful September. His coronation has been scheduled for adjacent May to let clip to mourn Elizabeth’s decease and to program the ceremony.