Sweet moment Princess Kate greets two young boys after paying her respects to fallen heroes at Anzac Day service
PRINCESS Kate shared a sweet moment with two young boys as she paid her respects to fallen heroes at the annual Anzac Day service.
Anzac Day was first established to commemorate the 1915 Gallipoli landing of Australian and New Zealand troops during the First World War.
It honours the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who have served and died in all wars and conflicts.
Kate also attended a service at Westminster Abbey alongside veterans and politicians including Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel.
And in a sweet moment while leaving the abbey, The Princess of Wales chatted with two young boys and their serving mother.
Kate also attended a service at Westminster Abbey alongside veterans and politicians including Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel.
And in a sweet moment while leaving the abbey, The Princess of Wales chatted with two young boys and their serving mother.
She shook their hands and leant over to speak with them after the service.
Kate – who wore a poppy on her lapel – had earlier placed a wreath at the foot of the national war memorial on Whitehall.
The ring of poppies – adorned with white flowers on top – also included a note signed Catherine and William.
It read: “In memory of the Australian and New Zealand soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom”.
The high commissioners for New Zealand and Australia, Hamish Cooper and Jay Weatherill, then laid their wreaths.
Reverend Dr Lyndon Drake recited from The Fallen by English poet Laurence Binyon.
He said: “They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; age shall not weary them nor the years condemn.
“At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.”
A Royal Marines Portsmouth Road Band trumpeter played the last post, before the crowd observed a one-minute silence.
Kate joined attendees singing the hymn O God Our Help in Ages Past before the men and women in military uniforms marched off.
Kate also attended a service at Westminster Abbey alongside veterans and politicians including Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel.
And in a sweet moment while leaving the abbey, The Princess of Wales chatted with two young boys and their serving mother.
She shook their hands and leant over to speak with them after the service.
Kate – who wore a poppy on her lapel – had earlier placed a wreath at the foot of the national war memorial on Whitehall.
The ring of poppies – adorned with white flowers on top – also included a note signed Catherine and William.
It read: “In memory of the Australian and New Zealand soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom”.
The high commissioners for New Zealand and Australia, Hamish Cooper and Jay Weatherill, then laid their wreaths.
Reverend Dr Lyndon Drake recited from The Fallen by English poet Laurence Binyon.
He said: “They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; age shall not weary them nor the years condemn.
“At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.”
A Royal Marines Portsmouth Road Band trumpeter played the last post, before the crowd observed a one-minute silence.
Kate joined attendees singing the hymn O God Our Help in Ages Past before the men and women in military uniforms marched off.