Overview
- An unscripted address by veteran Yavar (Yanvar) Abbas, who thanked the royal couple despite the King's ongoing cancer treatment, appeared to move Charles and Camilla to tears.
- Prince William attended the reception and said he was "honoured" to be there in an official post on the Prince and Princess of Wales' Instagram.
- Prime Minister Keir Starmer joined other senior figures, including Kemi Badenoch and Defence Secretary John Healey, in meeting veterans and their families.
- The event recognized UK and Commonwealth veterans of the Pacific and Indian Ocean campaigns, included displays by the Royal British Legion and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and concluded with the King holding the new Torch for Peace.
- Earlier in the day at the National Memorial Arboretum, the Princess of Wales led a two-minute silence and met World War II veterans.