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King Charles’s VJ Day Address to Precede National Service at Arboretum

The monarch’s pre-recorded message will kick off live BBC coverage of an 80th-anniversary service at the National Memorial Arboretum with flypasts followed by a national two-minute silence.

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Overview

  • Buckingham Palace confirmed the audio address will be broadcast on the morning of August 15 to mark 80 years since Japan’s surrender.
  • The message will lead into a live-streamed remembrance ceremony in Staffordshire attended by the King, Queen Camilla, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and surviving Second World War veterans.
  • Nationwide observances include a two-minute silence accompanied by a display from the Red Arrows and a flypast by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.
  • The BBC will pay tribute during its broadcast to Asia-Pacific theatre personnel, including Burma Star recipients, British Indian Army veterans and former prisoners of war.
  • Senior royals will lay floral tributes and host a reception for veterans after the service, while the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duke of Gloucester hold parallel events in Scotland and Norwich Cathedral.