{"id":31039,"date":"2014-11-09T22:29:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T14:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=31039"},"modified":"2025-01-12T23:06:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T04:06:19","slug":"queen-elizabeth-ii-leads-uk-memorial-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/11\/09\/queen-elizabeth-ii-leads-uk-memorial-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth II leads UK memorial ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_31136\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31136\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_114857485.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31136\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_114857485.jpg\" alt=\"Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II (Shaun Jeffers \/ Shutterstock)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_114857485.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_114857485-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_114857485-900x598.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II (Shaun Jeffers \/ Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LONDON &#8212; Queen Elizabeth II on Sunday led the national ceremony honoring British armed forces members who have died in action.<\/p>\n<p>The solemn Remembrance Sunday event at the Cenotaph in central London marked a highlight in British and Commonwealth tributes to fallen soldiers days before the centenary of the outbreak of World War I.<\/p>\n<p>The queen, dressed in black, placed a wreath at the Cenotaph, followed by other senior royals, politicians, and service representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Large crowds thronged the surrounding streets to see more than 10,000 veterans march as martial music played. The event started with two minutes of silence to remember the dead.<\/p>\n<p>The queen bowed her head in respect after she placed a poppy-filled wreath at the Cenotaph&#8217;s base.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy cialis super force online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biop.cz\/fotky\/nahledy\/jpg\/cialis-super-force.html\">http:\/\/www.biop.cz\/fotky\/nahledy\/jpg\/cialis-super-force.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>She was followed by her husband, Prince Philip, who was active in the Royal Navy, and Prince Charles, the heir to the throne and also an armed forces veteran.<\/p>\n<p>Prince William, who served as a military helicopter rescue pilot, placed the next wreath as his pregnant wife, Kate, watched from a nearby balcony. She sat alongside Camilla, Charles&#8217; wife.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister David Cameron called Sunday&#8217;s event particularly poignant because of the upcoming 100th anniversary of the start of World War I. He also cited the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings and the end of Britain&#8217;s military operations in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy amoxil online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biop.cz\/fotky\/nahledy\/jpg\/amoxil.html\">http:\/\/www.biop.cz\/fotky\/nahledy\/jpg\/amoxil.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>He was the first political leader to place a wreath, followed by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and opposition leader Ed Miliband.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy prelone online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biop.cz\/fotky\/nahledy\/jpg\/prelone.html\">http:\/\/www.biop.cz\/fotky\/nahledy\/jpg\/prelone.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The high profile ceremony took amid increased security concerns because of recent terrorism-related arrests and a nationwide terror threat assessed to be &#8220;severe.&#8221; Four men were arrested on terror-related charges Friday and are still being questioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8212; Queen Elizabeth II on Sunday led the national ceremony honoring British armed forces members who have died in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":31136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-w","mauthors-gregory-katz","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283102,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31039\/revisions\/283102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}