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Live: Royal Family at the Cenotaph

Senior members of the Royal Family attend Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph in London.

They include King Charles, Prince William and the Princess of Wales.  This year Queen Camilla not attending due to ill health.

The Queen, who is 77, will “mark the occasion privately at home and hopes to return to public duties early next week”.

They join political leaders, current and ex-members of the Armed Forces and World War veterans at the foot of the Cenotaph memorial.

When the bells of Big Ben toll eleven, and a single gun on Horse Guards Parade is fired, two minutes of complete silence held in remembrance of all lost in war.

A further round of gunfire signifies the end of the silence then the bugle call ‘The Last Post’ is played.

His Majesty and others, including High Commissioners from the Commonwealth, lay wreaths of poppies at the foot of the Cenotaph.

Designed by British architect Edwin Lutyens, the Cenotaph (meaning ‘empty tomb’) symbolises the unprecedented losses suffered during the First World War.   It has since become the National focal point of Remembrance.

The Cenotaph was unveiled by King George V in 1920, and every Monarch since has continued to lay a Wreath on Remembrance Sunday.

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