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This Tuesday, 11 November, is Remembrance Day (Veterans Day for our American members), a day in which we remember and honour the thousands of soldiers, men and women who fought for peace and independence and the many liberties we have today.

As each year passes, the number of veterans who participate in Remembrance Day ceremonies around the world become less and less, but in no way does it make the sacrifices they made less important. In fact, it is more important than ever that we remember and honour their sacrifices and their memory.

On this day, take a moment to remember our veterans and show your support by wearing a poppy, a symbol for this most important of days, chosen because where soldiers died in a field between Belgium and France, thousands of poppies grew. The poppies surrounded the wooden crosses which were erected in memory of fallen soldiers, and the poppies became the symbol of the blood shed by the soldiers in battle.

Although other royal families honour this day, I think the British royals are most visible in commemorating Remembrance Day. A look back at November 11's past and present with the British royal family.


Flowers Placed on the Cenotaph

Veterans of the British Armed Forces place commemorative flowers on the Cenotaph. This event his held on Remembrance Sunday to commemorate the men who have fallen in past wars.
 

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www.corbis.com - Queen Elizabeth II Attending Remembrance Day Ceremony

Queen Elizabeth II wears a black coat and red flower pin to a Remembrance Day ceremony.
 

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www.corbis.com - King Olav V with British Royals on Remembrance Day

King Olav V of Norway watches the Remembrance Day ceremony at the Cenotaph with Princess Diana, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, and the Queen Mother.
 

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www.ibl.se and www.rexfeatures.com - On the balcony, Earl and Countess of Wessex, Captain Tim Laurence (husband of Princess Anne), Peter Phillips and the Queen Mum.
 

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www.polfoto.dk - Captain Timothy Laurence, Princess Beatrice, Countess and Earl of Wessex.

www.rexfeatures.com - Princess Alexandra and the Honourable Angus Ogilvy.

www.corbis.com - SOPHIE RHYS-JONES COUNTESS OF WESSEX WITH HER HUSBAND PRINCE EDWARD DURING REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY

Original caption: Sophie Rhys Jones, the Countess of Wessex and her husband Prince Edward observe the two minutes silence during the Remembrance Sunday parade at the Cenotaph in central London November 12, 2000. Thousands of people joined the Queen, political leaders and military groups to remember Britain's war dead.

www.ibl.se - Princess Anne participating in Remembrance Day ceremonies.
 

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www.corbis.com - 11 November 1982 - Queen Mother on Remembrance Day

Queen Mother in the Garden of Remembrance at St. Margarets, Westminster. She is wearing the Jubilee Brooch given to Queen Victoria in 1897.
 

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www.rexfeatures.com - Captain Timothy Laurence, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Earl and Countess of Wessex.
 

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www.corbis.com - 13 November 1994 - Queen Elizabeth II, who celebrates her Golden Jubilee in 2002, wearing black for mourning and looking pensive as she attends the Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph in Whitehall with Prince Charles.
 

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www.corbis.com - 6 November 1998 - WWI REMEMBRANCE SERVICE IN LONDON

Original caption: The Queen Mother attends the Remembrance Day service at Westminster Abbey.
 

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www.corbis.com - BRITAIN'S QUEEN ELIZABETH ATTENDS REMEMBRANCE DAY SERVICE AT THE CENOTAPH

Original caption: Britain's Queen Elizabeth attends the remembrance service at the Cenotaph at London's Whitehall, November 11, 2001. The service was attended for the first time by the U.S. ambassador to London, William Farrish, who was invited to take part following the attacks in New York on September 11, 2001.
 

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www.corbis.com - 8 November 1994 - Prince Edward in Tuxedo at President's Ball
Prince Edward attends the President's Ball for the Lord's Taverners on Remembrance Sunday at the Grosvenor House Hotel.

www.polfoto.dk - Sophie, too, was sporting a poppy at the opening of ChildLine shortly before the birth of her daughter.

Polfoto 09-11-2003 Queen Elizabeth II at The Remembrance Ceremony in Whitehall, London, Sunday November 9, 2003.
 

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www.corbis.com - 14 November 1999 - DAY OF REMEMBRANCE IN LONDON

Original caption: Princess Alexandra of Kent arrives to attend the remembrance day concert at the Royal Albert Hall.

www.corbis.com - 14 November 1999 - ELIZABETH II COMMEMORATES THE ARMISTICE IN DURBAN

Original caption: Queen Elizabeth wearing the traditional poppies of Remembrance Day.
 

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www.yahoo.com - The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh this weekend.

Polfoto 08-11-2003 Prince Andrew and Princess Anne arrive to attend the annual Royal Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall, London Saturday 8th November 2003.
 

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www.rexfeatures.com - Remembrance Sunday Service at the Cenotaph, London, Britain - 9 November 2003.

www.rexfeatures.com - Remembrance Sunday Service at the Cenotaph, London, Britain - 9 November 2003.

Pictured: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip and in the backgroud, the Duke of Kent dressed in the blue uniform.
 

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Originally posted by Alexandria@Nov 9th, 2003 - 1:12 pm
www.polfoto.dk - Captain Timothy Laurence, Princess Beatrice, Countess and Earl of Wessex.
I remember watching this on TV, poor Bea collapsed half way through and had to be picked up by Edward & Sophie. She musn't have had her brekkie or been on her period or something. Poor kid spent ages trying to get uncle Eddie's attention, she kept looking up at him and whispering something, getting redder and redder in the face until she just fainted.

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Why is Prince Phillip and Princess Anne in their naval uniform instead of their army or airforce uniform. And why is the duke of kent in the army uniform? Is there a protocol stating so?

Thanks!!!
 
Originally posted by Duke@Apr 12th, 2004 - 9:34 pm
Why is Prince Phillip and Princess Anne in their naval uniform instead of their army or airforce uniform. And why is the duke of kent in the army uniform? Is there a protocol stating so?

Thanks!!!
The Duke of Edinburgh served as a Naval Officer both before and after his marriage.

The Duke of Kent served as an active Army Officer.

Princess Anne is Colonel in Chief of many regiments and naval areas so she can choose. For example she wears army uniform when trooping the colour.
 
Thanks wymanda for your reply! :) So that is to say there is no protocol on this matter. But The Duke of Edinburgh is also colonel-in-chief of many regiments and he wear the uniform of the Grenadier Guards at the trooping of colours.
 
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200411/s1241708.htm

Queen Elizabeth leads poignant tribute to Britain's war dead

Queen Elizabeth II has led a two-minute silence in Britain to remember the fallen of World War I, a particularly poignant tribute with British troops still in conflict in Iraq.

Before Big Ben struck to mark the beginning of the silence, the queen, and her husband Prince Phillip, laid wooden crosses in memory of the fallen as part of the annual Field of Remembrance ceremony.

The ceremony coincided with Armistice Day when, at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month, those who laid down their lives in World War I were remembered.

Each year, relatives and friends of the dead plant a small cross in the plot of grass at Westminster Abbey, each adorned with a blood-red poppy, the name and rank of a fallen loved one and a message of commemoration.

The crosses, laid out in regimental order by the Royal British Legion, Britain's leading veterans' charity, included six honouring the Black Watch soldiers who have died in Iraq since the start of the conflict.

The Scottish regiment is currently stationed 40 kilometres south-west of Baghdad to relieve US-led forces fighting to secure the nearby city of Fallujah.

At the Black Watch headquarters in Perth, central Scotland, the regimental flag was at half-mast on Thursday in remembrance of five servicemen who have lost their lives in the last fortnight alone.

The 850-strong Black Watch battle group was controversially deployed last month to the more dangerous US-controlled zone of Iraq from their base in Basra, southern Iraq, ahead of the US assault on Fallujah.

Fifteen crosses, planted by their regiments, remembered the other British servicemen and women who have also died in Iraq this year.

Dressed in black, the queen stood solemnly before a cross of poppies to observe a two-minute silence at 11:00am. Her husband stood to attention by her side.

Two trumpeters sounded the end of the two-minute silence from the parapet of nearby Saint Margaret's Church at Westminster.

In the grounds to the east of the Abbey lay the thousands of wooden crosses, bearing blood-red poppies, commemorating the lives of those who died at war.

Sara Jones, the widow of a hero of Britain's 1982 campaign against Argentina over the Falkland Islands, read the words: "At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them."

Ms Jones accompanied the queen and her husband as they toured the Field of Remembrance and spoke to veterans.

The queen paused at the Black Watch regimental plot and spoke to a senior officer representing the regiment.

Later on Thursday, the Royal British Legion will stage a flypast and drop 1.3 million poppy petals above the River Thames in central London.

The petals - one for every British and Commonwealth service person killed in action since the beginning of World War I - will be dropped between Tower and Westminster bridges by a Douglas Dakota DC3 aircraft during a two-minute flypast.

The river will be lit up in red every night until Sunday when the queen, accompanied by about 9,000 veterans, will lay a wreath at the Cenotaph war memorial in central London.

The Field of Commemoration was first opened in 1936 by the queen's mother, who for many years laid a cross in memory of her brother who was killed in World War I.

Armistice Day marks the end of the World War I on November 11, 1918, when the guns fell silent at 11:00am.

"Remembrance Sunday" honours soldiers who have died or were injured in all of Britain's military engagements.

World War I, the Great War, as it became known, lasted from 1914 to 1918 and took the lives of 956,700 British Empire soldiers, some 705,000 of them British.
 
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/14647574?source=PA

Queen leads silent tribute
11 November 2004

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will today lead the nation in a two-minute silence on Armistice Day.

They each put a Cross of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey and met war veterans from past and more recent conflicts.



This year's Field of Remembrance ceremony coincides with Armistice Day when, at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month, those who laid down their lives for peace and freedom are remembered.

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A bugler sounded the Last Post to signal observance of the two-minute silence.

The Queen and the Duke opened the Field of Remembrance, in central London, where hundreds of small wooden crosses, planted in the ground and adorned with a blood-red poppy, bear the name of a fallen loved one and message of commemoration.

The simple crosses are laid out by the ex-Service charity, the Royal British Legion, in regimental order in the grounds to the east of the Abbey.

For many years the opening ceremony was performed by the Queen Mother.

A Field of Remembrance will also be opened in Cardiff by Second World War veteran Sir Tasker Watkins, 85, who won the Victoria Cross in 1944 as a major in the Welsh Regiment and later went on to become a Privy Counsellor, Lord Justice of Appeal and Deputy Chief Justice of England.

Armistice Day marks the end of the First World War on November 11, 1918, when the guns fell silent at 11am.

According to the British Legion, more than three-quarters of the population, some 45 million people, are expected to pause for the two-minute silence which commemorates all those who have given their lives in all conflicts, including the Iraq War. "This has become by far the biggest annual demonstration of public support for any cause in the country," said a British Legion spokesman.
 
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Pics from the Remembrance Day, 2004
 

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The Queen looked very sad.Did she cry?In 2002 when she attended,she cried.
Did The Wessexes attend?And Princess Royal,Andrew?
 
No one else except the Queen & Phillip attend this event. But I do hope Prince William attends the Royal Festival of Remembrance and the Cenotaph event bearing in mind that boys as young as 19 (three years younger than William) have been ( and still are being) slaughtered in Iraq.
 
I luv that Great Britain has these ceremonies. This is an awesome way to remember those who have sacrificed so much for their country. Go QEII!
 
some more pics of attendees, including Prime Minister Tony Blair, Baroness Margaret Thatcher, Countess Sophie of Wessex, Prince William
 

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Remembrance Sunday and the Festival of Remembrance 2007

not sure if there is already a thread on this but with it nearly being Remembrance Sunday i thought it would be a good idea to look back at the previuos occassions

according to reports by Richard Kay in the Daily Mail both Prince William and Prince Edward will lay a wreath on sunday for the first time - i actually think it could be possible as William was previously only training to be an officer in the army and now he has passed out from sandhurst it is quite likely that he will lay a wreath it is the next stage in his training to be king
 
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