Overview
- The Princess of Wales led the 11am two-minute silence and laid a wreath at the Armed Forces Memorial in her first visit to the Arboretum’s Armistice Day service.
- Services across the UK marked the anniversary of the First World War’s end, with crowds observing the silence at local cenotaphs, town halls and the Cenotaph in London.
- A specially commissioned poem by poet in residence Arji Manuelpillai was read at the Staffordshire service, emphasizing personal connections forged through service.
- A video message from the Prince of Wales to the Royal British Legion’s Remembrance Assembly told pupils that “remembrance is for everyone” and urged wearing the red poppy.
- Queen Camilla joined Great Western Railway’s Poppies to Paddington, taking a train from Chippenham before laying a wreath at London Paddington’s Platform 1.