King Charles, the Queen Consort and senior members of the royal family are gathering at the Royal Albert Hall to pay their respects at the annual Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance.
The event is one of a series the royals are attending to commemorate the nation’s war dead, ahead of tomorrow’s Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the Cenotaph in Whitehall.
Queen Elizabeth, who died nine weeks ago at the age of 96, considered Remembrance Sunday one of the most significant and important engagements in her royal calendar and missed just a handful of services in her historic 70 years as monarch.
This year marks the King’s first Remembrance Day as monarch.
The service doubled as a tribute to the late Queen and her contribution to the cause, as Royal British Legion patron, the longest serving Commander-in-Chief of the British Armed Forces and the former Subaltern Elizabeth Windsor; after rising through the ranks of the Auxiliary Territorial Service as a driver, mechanic and junior…
