‘There’s a special poignancy with the loss of Her Majesty, another Second World War veteran’
Leading the nation in remembrance, the King was visibly moved as he stood in solemn reflection at the Cenotaph.
While he has laid wreaths at the London war memorial for decades, this was the first time he had done so as monarch and the emotion of the moment was etched on his face.
He stood alone at the front of the royal line-up, in the spot that his mother the Queen occupied for so many decades, her cypher still on the epaulette of his No. 1