The Queen led the Remembrance Day commemoration yesterday as
she joined the traditional ceremony in front of thousands of veterans as millions more across the nation watched the moving event on television.
The Queen Mother, 98, watched from a window of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, overlooking the Cenotaph, along with other members of the Royal Family.
The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Duke of York and the Duke of Kent laid wreaths and Captain William de Rouet laid a wreath on behalf of the Queen Mother, while Captain Richard Larkin laid a wreath on behalf of the Prince of Wales, who is away on a tour of the Balkans.
Their tributes were the first of many as political leaders and representatives of Commonwealth governments laid their own wreaths.
The Queen Mother, wearing a black hat and coat, was present in her traditional place today as she was last year, after previously missing the ceremony for three years because of ill health.
She missed last night's annual Festival of Remembrance at London's Royal Albert Hall for the fifth year in succession.
After the royal wreaths, Prime Minister Tony Blair stepped forward to lay his wreath and was followed by Conservative leader William Hague, Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown, Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble and Margaret Ewing, deputy leader of the Scottish National Party.
The wreath laying was followed by a short service and march past, in which a group of veterans of the Falklands conflict took part for the first time this year.
The Prince of Wales observed Remembrance Sunday 1300 miles from home in Macedonia, close to the border with war-torn Kosovo.
The victims of the Omagh bombing were remembered in the County Tyrone town. The names of the 29 people killed by the Real IRA bomb in August, together with those of two unborn children, were read out by the President of the Omagh branch of the Royal British Legion.
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