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Queen Elizabeth II has hosted a low-key Remembrance Day ceremony at Britain’s Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, as the country pays tribute to its war dead without the usual grim spectacle, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The 94-year-old monarch laid a bouquet of orchids and myrtle on the grave at Westminster Abbey last week to mark 100 years since the remains of an unidentified soldier were brought back from World War I. Buckingham Palace said. it’s a statement.
The flower arrangement was based on the queen’s 1947 wedding bouquet, she said, extending a tradition at the grave started by her mother in 1923 after her own brother was killed in the war, and continued by royal brides since so.
Commemoration events are held annually on the second Sunday in November, around November 11, when guns fell silent in World War I.
A national wreath-laying ceremony will take place on Sunday at the Cenotaph war memorial in central London, but there will be no marching veterans or crowds watching due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Since 2017, Prince Charles, heir to the throne, has taken the place of his elderly mother at the ceremony. He also attended an annual commemorative concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall, which was recorded without an audience and broadcast on Saturday.
