King Charles leads Britain in marking Remembrance Sunday

King Charles III led the nation in paying tribute to the fallen for the first time as sovereign. The monarch, who in the past few years had laid a wreath on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II, today carried to the foot of the Cenotaph in central London his own poppy wreath as the country’s King.On what surely was a deeply emotional day for the King, Charles looked sombre in his military coat as he showed his respect for those who gave their lives to keep Britain safe during the two world wars and other conflicts that followed.King Charles led millions across the country by falling silent for two minutes when nearby Big Ben marked 11am – the same moment the armistice was signed between the Allies and Germany in 1918, a move which brought World War I to an end.King Charles laid a wreath paying tribute to his great-grandfather King George V. grandfather, King George VI, and his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.His wreath’s poppies were mounted on an arrangement of black leaves, as it’s traditional for the sovereign, and included a ribbon bearing the King’s racing colours – scarlet, purple and gold.  King Charles led the country in paying respect to the fallen (Image: SKY NEWS)The royal racing colours had already been incorporated into the wreaths of King George V, King George VI and the late Queen.Queen Camilla, whose wreath was laid at the Cenotaph after the one of Charles’s by an equerry, also incorporated racing colours into her floral tribute to the fallen – the ones inherited from her grandfather.Her wreath also paid homage to the beloved Queen Mother, as it echoed the one being laid on her behalf every year when she was alive.While the King performed this sacred duty, his wife Camilla looked on from the nearby balcony of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office building, where she stood next to Kate, Princess of Wales. READ MORE: Meghan gives powerful statement after receiving honourPrince William and Prince Edward, on the other hand, were among the senior royals who laid their own wreaths at the Cenotaph.The King first laid a wreath on behalf of his mother on Remembrance Sunday in 2017 when, aged 91, she watched on from one of the nearby balconies in the company of her husband Prince Philip, a World War 2 veteran.The late sovereign only missed the National Service of Remembrance seven times during her record-breaking reign.Only in 2021 her absence was due to mobility issues, as in past years she was forced to be absent by either her pregnancies or foreign trips.MORE TO FOLLOW