The Queen attends Sunday memorial service at the memorial | Property

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The Queen will attend a memorial service Sunday at the memorial, where she led the nation’s memorial service for the war dead. The 95-year-old was confined to doctors’ orders to rest for about a month. She spent a night in the hospital on October 20 undergoing preliminary tests.

The event will give more emotion by going back to the pre-pandemic numbers of veterans and military personnel involved, as well as spectators.

The prime minister will be among senior politicians and members of the royal family who lay a wreath at the war memorial in central London to mark the National Service of Remembrance.

Boris Johnson said it was a moment “to come together to remember those who sacrificed everything in the service of our country”.

Labor leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was time for us to pause, reflect and remember those millions of people from Britain and the Commonwealth of Nations who kept us safe through their service and sacrifice.

The memorial service in Whitehall will return to normal this year, after the coronavirus pandemic limited the number of veterans and military and closed the ceremony to the public last year.

Hundreds of soldiers and women will line up around the memorial, and nearly 10,000 veterans will parade in front of the war memorial, watched by large crowds.

Buckingham Palace has said the Queen has “strong intentions” to attend the annual wreath-laying ceremony in Whitehall.

The king, who lived through World War II, is the commander of the armed forces and attaches great importance to serving and commemorating the sacrifices of soldiers and women.

She missed several other events, including Saturday’s festival of remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall, after the royal doctors ordered a rest just over three weeks ago. Other members of the royal family and the prime minister joined a crowd of thousands to commemorate everyone who lost their lives in the conflicts at the annual Memorial Festival, which took place on Saturday night.

The Prince of Wales will lay a wreath at the top of the monument on behalf of the Queen as she watches from the balcony of a government building, as in previous years. A two-minute national silence will be held at 11 am on Sunday to commemorate those who fought in past conflicts and paid the greatest sacrifices.

Celebrations will also take place at war memorials across the country, after being scaled back last year, where the Royal British Legion advised the public to commemorate remotely by displaying poppies in their window.

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