During the Service of Thanksgiving commemorating the sacrifice of the Second World War
generation, the Prime Minister gave a reading. While afterwards, the King and Queen will meet veterans in the congregation.<\/p>\n
Before departure, Her Majesty will lead other Members of the Royal Family in laying flowers
at the Innocent Victims\u2019 Memorial, outside the Abbey\u2019s West Door.<\/p>\n
Queen Camilla<\/p>\n
Chris Jackson\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, the royal family, including the Princess of Wales joined Second World War veterans to watch a military procession arrive at Buckingham Palace before enjoying a tea party. Kate Middleton was joined at the event by her children, Prince George<\/a>, Princess Charlotte<\/a> and Prince Louis<\/a>, who watched the parade before enjoying the Red Arrows flypast from the balcony of the palace.<\/p>\n VE Day sees the United Kingdom remembering the end of war in Europe and honouring those who fought.<\/p>\n The Ministry of Information announced by radio at 7.40pm on Monday 7th May that \u2018in accordance with arrangements between the three great powers (Britain, America and Russia) a formal announcement of victory would be made by the Prime Minister Winston Churchill the following day\u2019, hence the 8th became known as Victory in Europe Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the Service of Thanksgiving commemorating the sacrifice of the Second World Wargeneration, the Prime Minister gave a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,448,9321,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-84585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-royals","13":"tag-the-princess-of-wales","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114472196874350004","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84585","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=84585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}