Overview
- A national two‑minute silence was observed at 11am to mark the 1918 armistice ending the First World War.
- At the Armed Forces Memorial in Staffordshire, the Princess of Wales led the service and laid a wreath bearing a handwritten note that read, “In memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice, we will remember them. Catherine.”
- This was her first attendance at the Arboretum’s Armistice Day service and the first time she laid a wreath there.
- The ceremony featured a specially commissioned reading of A Sonnet For Us All by the Arboretum’s poet in residence, Arji Manuelpillai.
- Prince William addressed schools in a Royal British Legion assembly with a video message urging young people to wear a poppy and stressing that remembrance is for everyone.