King Charles III has led the United Kingdom's annual ceremony of remembrance for the country's war dead, under November sunshine and the shadow cast across Europe by the almost four-year-old war in Ukraine.

As Parliament's Big Ben bell tolled 11am, thousands of military personnel, veterans and members of the public gathered in central London fell still for two minutes of silence, broken by a single artillery blast and Royal Marines buglers sounding The Last Post.

The 76-year-old monarch, dressed in the uniform of an army field marshal, laid a wreath of red paper poppies on a black background at the base of the Cenotaph war memorial.

Erected more than a century ago to honour the British and allied troops killed in World War I, it has become the focus of annual ceremonies for members of m

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