MAKING A POIGNANT AND DEEPLY PERSONAL VISIT TO WESTMINSTER ABBEY THE QUEEN LEADS REMEMBRANCE TRIBUTES IN A HISTORIC PRIVATE SERVICE
With quiet dignity, the Queen led the nation’s tribute to the fallen last week as she made a hugely significant visit to the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey.
In the majestic surroundings of a building so closely connected to her own life, the monarch, 94 – pictured for the first time wearing a face mask – bowed her head to honour all those killed while serving their country, as a floral tribute inspired by her wedding bouquet was laid on the plain black gravestone lined with poppies.
HISTORY IN THE MAKING
The Queen followed in the footsteps of her grandfather George V and her father, the future George VI, who almost exactly 100 years earlier had walked behind the fallen soldier’s casket in a funeral procession and witnessed
