A poignant moment at the National War Memorial <\/p>\n
Charles and Camilla are paying their respects and laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National War Memorial after the speech from the throne.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a regular stop on royal visits to Ottawa, and this trip is no different.<\/p>\n
The war memorial was unveiled by Charles\u2019s grandfather, King George VI, during his visit with his wife Queen Elizabeth in 1939.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s one last engagement today for Charles and Camilla, and one that reinforces a focus that has long been important to them \u2014 support for the military. It also has a deep personal resonance.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is tremendous poignancy there and you\u2019ve got it happening then on multiple levels,\u201d royal historian Justin Vovk of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont., told me.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou’ve got the personal poignancy of Charles inhabiting the space and this site of memory that had been inaugurated by his grandparents \u2026 the last time that a reigning King was in Canada.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt also has great poignancy for Canadians who have served in the Armed Forces. Charles’s role as commander-in-chief, Canada’s tremendously proud history of peacekeeping and its military history. That is a significant way for the King and Queen to show solidarity with Canadians and our history.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A poignant moment at the National War Memorial Charles and Camilla are paying their respects and laying a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-136515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-royal","9":"tag-royal-families","10":"tag-royal-family","11":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114581078310136872","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}