The youngest contingent of marchers marched past the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday.

About 95 young people from Scotty’s Little Soldiers, a charity helping children who have lost a parent serving in the armed forces, walked past the war memorial wearing black and yellow scarves.

A group of Chelsea pensioners received loud cheers as they marched through Whitehall earlier at the Royal British Legion event.

In the absence of the Queen, who is recovering at home from a lung infection, the Princess of Wales had to go alone to the central balcony.

But the Duchess of Edinburgh was moved from her originally planned position with the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester on a nearby balcony to standing side by side with Kate in support.

Kate chatted and smiled at Sophie at the start and, as they stepped out of the balcony at the end of the ceremony, Sophie was seen placing her gloved hand on the princess’s back in a comforting gesture.

Members of the armed forces joined dignitaries and members of the public for Remembrance Sunday in Portsmouth, home of the Royal Navy.

The Lord Mayor of Portsmouth, Jason Fazackarley, attended the church service in the Hampshire town’s Guildhall Square. The service was preceded by a parade of veterans, service members and youth groups and concluded with a wreath-laying ceremony at Portsmouth’s World War I and II memorials.

Also present were Portsmouth’s two Labor MPs, Amanda Martin and Stephen Morgan.

As the King and other members of the royal family paid their respects to the war dead at the Cenotaph on Sunday, a number of politicians did as well.

Prime Minister Sir Keir came forward to pay his respects to the fallen on behalf of the Government with his floral tribute, as did new Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch, other party leaders, senior Cabinet members, chiefs military staff and high commissioners.

Near the cenotaph were eight former prime ministers, an unprecedented number: Sir John Major, Sir Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Lord Cameron, Baroness May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak.

British Reform leader Nigel Farage and Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer watched the events from a balcony at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office as only the leaders of parties with six or more seats in Parliament, plus the leaders of the largest party of each. the decentralized nations lay a wreath.

Dressed in dark black as tradition dictates, the Princess of Wales wore a mesh hat topped with a twisted bun, as well as a military-style coat adorned with black epaulettes and embellished at the neck with a bow in black velvet.

Her diamond and pearl earrings belonged to the late Queen, and she also wore her silver Queen’s Dragoon Guards brooch – in a nod to her role as colonel-in-chief of the regiment – ​​under three red poppies .

The King laid a wreath at the Cenotaph to honor those who died in the conflict after leading the nation in observing a two-minute silence in one of the most poignant moments of the annual Remembrance Sunday service.

Charles, dressed in his Royal Navy Fleet Admiral’s uniform, saluted after walking away from the Cenotaph.

Her crown closely resembles that produced for King George VI, with 41 paper poppy petals mounted on an arrangement of black leaves, as is traditional for sovereign crowns, and decorated with a ribbon and a scarlet, purple and gold bows.

The colors of the ribbon and the bow come from the King’s racing silk.

Other members of the royal family laid wreaths, including the Prince of Wales in his Royal Air Force uniform at the rank of Wing Commander.

King Charles and the Princess of Wales were among the most senior members of the royal family to commemorate the war dead at the Cenotaph this morning.

The monarch led the nation in a solemn two-minute silence to honor those who died in the conflict as he stood at the monument with his son, the Prince of Wales, and his sister, the Princess Royal, behind him .

Meanwhile, the Princess of Wales watched the ceremony from above on the nearby balcony of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office overlooking Whitehall with Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh.

Charles then laid the first wreath at the cenotaph before William and Anne followed suit.