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Remembrance Sunday 2024 is being marked at London's Cenotaph with its annual wreath-laying ceremony, ahead of a two-minute silence at 11:00 GMT. Members of the Royal family will join politicians ...
Kate Middleton will join the royal family for the annual Festival of Remembrance and Remembrance Sunday after completing chemotherapy.. On Nov. 9, the Princess of Wales, 42, will join her husband ...
The occasion is also marked on the second Sunday of November, known as Remembrance Sunday, with a minute’s silence at 11am. This year, Remembrance Sunday falls on 10 November.
It commemorates "the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women in the two World Wars and later conflicts". [1] It takes place on the second Sunday in November, the Sunday nearest to 11 November, Armistice Day, [a] the anniversary of the end of hostilities in the First World War at 11 a.m. in 1918.
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The focus of remembrance for the dead of the First World War originally fell on Armistice Day itself, commencing in 1919. As well as the National Service in London, events were staged at town and village war memorials, often featuring processions of civic dignitaries and veterans.
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Kate's most recent Remembrance Sunday look was full of repeats: the bespoke Catherine Walker coat she wore in 2019 and the Philip Treacy hat she first wore in 2006 at Prince William's Sandhurst ...