UK Royals And Political Leaders Honor Fallen Service Personnel On Remembrance Sunday

King Charles III houred fallen service personnel in central London on Sunday as Princess of Wales looked on, in a furr sign royal family is slowly returning to rmal at end of a year in which two of most popular royals were side-lined by cancer.

Remembrance Sunday is a totemic event in UK, with monarch leing senior royals, political leers, including Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his eight living predecessors, and envoys from Commonwealth countries in laying wreaths at Cetaph, Portland stone memorial that serves as focal point for houring nation’s war de.

It is held on second Sunday of vember to mark signing of armistice to end World War I “on eleventh hour of eleventh day of eleventh month” in 1918.

Dressed in sombre black, Kate, watched ceremony from a balcony of nearby Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, as is trition.

Queen Camilla, who would rmally be standing next to princess, was t present as she is recovering from a chest infection.

It is first time since start of year that Kate is carrying out two consecutive days of public official engments.

On Saturday, she attended Royal British Legion Festival Of Remembrance at Royal Albert Hall.

Following wreath-laying, around 10,000 veterans, including those who have fought in wars this century, tably in Afghanistan and Iraq, marched past Cetaph.

With pass of time, re were only a handful of World War II veterans present.