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WW2 Veterans Outnumber Former PMs at Cenotaph Service

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King Charles III led the national two-minute silence at the Cenotaph in Whitehall on Remembrance Sunday.

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Surviving Second World War veterans outnumbered former prime ministers present, likely for one of the last times.

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Kate Middleton stood alongside Queen Camilla on the Foreign Office balcony to observe the wreath-laying ceremony.

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The service followed the Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall the previous evening.

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