Overview
- Prince William recorded a video urging young people to wear a poppy and stressing that remembrance is for everyone.
- His message is being played across UK learning settings in a virtual Remembrance Assembly for ages 9–14, delivered with the National Literacy Trust and running 10:25–11:05 with a two‑minute silence at 11:00.
- The Assembly features first‑hand accounts from Second World War veterans George Durrant, 101, and Prince Albert Jacob, 100, alongside serving personnel RAF Air Commander Fred Wigglesworth and Army Lieutenant Colonel Manpreet Maycock.
- The Princess of Wales is attending the National Memorial Arboretum service, which includes a reading of Arji Manuelpillai’s ‘A Sonnet For Us All’, a wreath‑laying, viewing of newly dedicated names and meetings with veterans.
- Later, William is scheduled to join the King and Queen at Windsor Castle for a reception honoring Pacific theatre veterans as part of VJ Day 80th commemorations.