(ANSA) - LONDON, NOV 11 - Camilla takes center stage, in Windsor, on Armistice Day (or Remembrance Day): a date of great significance in which the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth countries remember the fallen of the former British Empire on the anniversary of the conclusion of the First World War. The anniversary, which includes a series of appointments in the Kingdom, destined to last until Sunday, was marked today in the first place - between events and scattered commemorations - by the traditional ceremony in the Field of Remembrance, at Westminster Abbey, where the Duchess of Cornwall, consort of the heir to the throne Charles, represented the entire royal family by placing a classic crown of red poppies, a symbolic flower on the island of homage to fallen and veterans.
Flanked by authorities and military departments in full uniform, Camilla has thus emphasized the increasingly central role assumed in recent years within the dynasty, against the background of the oblivion now lowered on most of those popular sentiments hostilized by her past image as a "rival" of late Princess Diana, as well as the close relationship with Queen Elizabeth herself that emerged on numerous recent official occasions. The 95-year-old sovereign, for her part, forced by doctors to a few weeks of rest after being subjected to a very rare hospitalization of about 24 hours in October for unspecified "preliminary checks", remains for the moment in Windsor Castle. And he was unable to join, according to tradition, the 2 minutes of silence in front of the cenotaph in London.However, he made it known days ago that he had decided to return to public activity at least Sunday 14, to be present at the "national service" which, like every year, will close the cycle of commemorations linked to Remembrance Day.
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