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Princess Anne Attends Anzac Day Dawn Services

The service included a reading of In Flanders Fields and ended with the national anthems of three countries.

  • On Saturday, Princess Anne attended the Anzac Day dawn service at the New Zealand Memorial in London's Hyde Park Corner, organised by the New Zealand and Australian High Commissions.
  • Anzac Day commemorates the 1915 Gallipoli landing of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps troops during the First World War and has since become a broader day of remembrance for all military forces.
  • The Princess Royal laid a wreath against Wellington Arch during the service, which included a reading of the John McCrae poem Flanders Fields and concluded with national anthems of the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia.
  • Later on Saturday, Princess Kate will lead further tributes at the Cenotaph war memorial and attend a service of commemoration and thanksgiving at Westminster Abbey with veterans and Commonwealth representatives.
  • Global commemorations occurred across New Zealand, Australia, and Gallipoli on Saturday morning, while a service in Villers-Bretonneux, France, honoured Australian units from the First World War, reflecting shared remembrance between Britain, Australia, and New Zealand.
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