Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall
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The monarch, 88, led the symbolic tributes to the fallen and injured in wars and other conflicts as Britain stopped for two minutes of silence to mark their sacrifices.
This year has taken on greater significance as it is the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War in 1914.
Somber in a black hat and coat, which was decorated with a jeweled poppy emblem, Princess Kate watched as her husband, Prince William, 32, stepped forward after his father Prince Charles, 65, to lay a wreath.
Kate, 32, stood with Charles's wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, and Sophie, Countess of Wessex, observing the ceremony from above a balcony at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office above Whitehall.
The wreath laying followed the moving moment of silence, which ended with a single cannon fired nearby by the King's Troop and the sound of the Last Post played by the Royal Marine buglers at the memorial.
After the short service of hymns and an address by the bishop of London, the queen led the royal family away from the memorial – to the sound of the crowd's applause.
Prince William
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Meanwhile, Prince Harry paid his respects with an unannounced trip to Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he laid a wreath and read from the gospel before joining his fellow servicemen for the closing performed by the Royal Artillery Band.
Harry, who later spent time inside one of the nearby aircraft's cockpits, also had the chance to reconnect with his old unit from his 2012 deployment.
The Remembrance Sunday events followed a Saturday out in Wales for William and Kate, who was under the weather later in the day and missed a tea party after seeing Wales play Australia at rugby in Cardiff.
Queen Elizabeth
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