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Remembrance Service in UK on TV

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Maywalk Sun 14-Nov-21 16:09:29

Did anyone watch this moving ceremony????

Quite surprised there is no thread on here for people to pay their respects.

Welshwife Sun 14-Nov-21 23:43:49

What title will Camilla have when Charles is King? Probably not Queen but Katherine will be Queen when William is on the throne. I heard it said in the commentary that she was representing the Queen.
All three women looked good but somehow I thought Katherine had the edge.

BlueSky Mon 15-Nov-21 00:02:08

Camilla will probably become Princess Consort and Catherine Queen Consort.

Calendargirl Mon 15-Nov-21 06:59:30

Been discussed before.

I for one hope Camilla is Queen Consort.

Think Charles will settle for nothing less.

Aveline Mon 15-Nov-21 07:13:18

It's wonderful to see members of the armed forces from all over the country and the commonwealth being commemorated together just as they all were together during the wars.
My great uncles were Scottish but one joined the East Lancashire regiment and died on the Somme, the other was in the Highland Light Infantry and was killed in Mesopotamia. I never met them but think of them.

BigBertha1 Mon 15-Nov-21 07:45:06

We went to our local one which was well attended and watched the Cenotaph service when we came back.

welbeck Mon 15-Nov-21 17:16:15

Maywalk

Thanks for the input ladies.
This special day means a lot to me mainly because I am nearer the Queens age.
Having myself been bombed out twice during WW2 and spending 57 days and nights down a shelter during the London Blitz, plus being machine gunned in the hopfields and on the evacuee train it gave me some insight as to what our allied forces were going through.
I also had two brothers fighting abroad, plus an uncle.

God Bless Them All.

may i ask where you were bombed out from, which part of ? london ?
i'm glad you got through it anyway.

Maywalk Mon 15-Nov-21 20:57:29

Camberwell in South East London welbeck.
We finally went back in 1947.
My parents had been offered a 4 bedroomed council house but not in Camberwell.
It was in Peckham and I believe was sold for well over 500 thousand quite a few years ago.

absent Tue 16-Nov-21 04:56:07

We also have Remembrance Day in our far distant islands of New Zealand. Poppy wreaths have appeared at the war memorials even in this small town where I live. However, Anzac Day is the major day of remembrance for soldiers from Australia and New Zealand. It is a national holiday and there are services throughout the country at dawn.

I shall never forget my visit to Waiouru in the North Island. It is New Zealand's major army base , but also the Memorial Museum. As you enter fully, there is a room with Koimata Pounamu – tears on greenstone (jade). It is a heartbreaking tribute symbolising both cleansing and mourning. A firm but quiet voice continuously reads out the names, ranks and sites of death of more than 33,000 Kiwis who died in the Boer Wars, World Wars and Vietnam War – and probably now other wars, such as Afghanistan. The young ages and numbers of those who perished in Gallipoli reduced me to heaving sobs.

henetha Tue 16-Nov-21 10:50:05

I went out to a local ceremony but couldn't find it! I know it sounds daft, but it wasn't where I thought it would be. So I stood alone in the street to observe the two minute silence.
Then went home later and watched the tv one which I had recorded.