{"id":270811,"date":"2025-11-08T22:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T22:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/270811\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T22:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T22:06:12","slug":"prince-george-joins-kate-king-and-queen-at-festival-of-remembrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/270811\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince George joins Kate, King and Queen at Festival of Remembrance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The senior royals attended the annual event organised by the Royal British Legion<\/p>\n

Prince George has joined King Charles, Queen Camilla and Catherine, Princess of Wales at this year’s Festival of Remembrance in London’s Royal Albert Hall.<\/p>\n

The audience stood and a fanfare played as the royals entered the concert hall to commemorate those who lost their lives in service, on the eve of Remembrance Sunday.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria also attended the annual event, which this year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two.<\/p>\n

It also comes 25 years after the end of a decades-long ban on gay people serving in the armed forces, and the event reflected on the discrimination faced by LGBT personnel.<\/p>\n

Catherine sat beside her eldest son George, 12, and wore a handmade poppy made of silk, glass and other natural materials.<\/p>\n

The Royal Family stood and applauded as the Chelsea Pensioners – retired British Army veterans – entered the auditorium and marched across the stage, while an orchestra performed the Boys Of The Old Brigade.<\/p>\n

The Prince of Wales was not present as he was travelling back from Brazil, where he gave a speech to world leaders<\/a> gathering for the COP30 UN climate change summit and visited a remote island<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Princess Catherine was joined by her eldest son George, 12<\/p>\n

The event – which was broadcast on BBC One at 21:00 – was hosted by actress Hannah Waddingham and featured performances by musicians including Sir Rod Stewart and Sam Ryder.<\/p>\n

Several armed forces bands were also set to take to the stage to accompany the artists and perform military music, including the RAF Squadronaires.<\/p>\n

Veterans in attendance included some who had helped to plan D-Day – when Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, marking the start of the campaign to liberate north-west Europe during World War Two – and some who had been prisoners of war.<\/p>\n

Members of the LGBTQ+ veterans charity Fighting With Pride were also present, including former PO Alex Rasmussen from Bournemouth, who was made to leave the Royal Navy in 1996 after colleagues discovered his sexuality<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The King attended his first official engagement in support of the community in October, as he unveiled a memorial<\/a> to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender military personnel.<\/p>\n

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The prime minister and his wife Lady Victoria were among those at the concert<\/p>\n

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Sir Rod Stewart was accompanied by the RAF Squadronaires, the air force’s big band<\/p>\n

Events will take place around the country tomorrow to mark Remembrance Sunday, which is observed on the closest Sunday to Armistice Day on 11 November.<\/p>\n

Marking the moment World War One ended in 1918, it will see two minutes of silence held at 11:00 on the 11th day of the 11th month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PA Media The senior royals attended the annual event organised by the Royal British Legion Prince George has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-270811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}