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The world-famous Big Ben bell in London is ringing again.
Over the past five years, the Elizabeth Tower at the north end of Parliament, where the bell is located, has had its clockwork and bell mechanism extensively restored.
Since then, the bell has only rung for exceptions – such as Brexit and the death of the Queen.
Now the carillon will sound regularly again.
The reopening coincided with Remembrance Day, which commemorates UK and Commonwealth soldiers killed in Britain.
The day commemorates the Armistice of World War I in 1918.
King Charles III
laid a wreath of honor at the central London Cenotaph World War II memorial on Remembrance Day.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and all of his seven surviving predecessors also came to Whitehall for the celebration.
At 11:00 a.m. local time, there was a two-minute silence across the country.
Charles had already laid a wreath at the Cenotaph in previous years on behalf of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.
One day before his 74th birthday he did this for the first time as king.
After him, heir to the throne Prince William, his youngest brother Prince Edward and his sister Princess Anne also honored the dead with wreaths.
Charles' wife Camilla and William's wife Princess Kate watched the ceremony from the balcony of a nearby government building.
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