LONDON -- King Charles III on Sunday led a national memorial service honoring those who died serving the United Kingdom -- an event that passed without incident despite fears that tensions surrounding the Israel-Hamas war might disrupt the ceremony.
LONDON -- King Charles III on Sunday led a national memorial service honoring those who died serving the United Kingdom -- an event that passed without incident despite fears that tensions surrounding the Israel-Hamas war might disrupt the ceremony.
King Charles III on Sunday led a national memorial service honoring those who died serving the United Kingdom — an event that passed without incident despite fears that tensions surrounding the Israel-Hamas war might disrupt the ceremony. London’s Metropolitan Police Service deployed more than double the usual number of officers to safeguard the event and put a 24-hour guard around the national war memorial, known as the Cenotaph, to ensure it wasn’t defaced. The annual service, during which thousands of veterans paraded past the Cenotaph, came after a week of debate over calls to cancel a massive pro-Palestinian march on Saturday out of respect for the weekend’s memorial events.