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Senior royals waved to thousands of people from the Buckingham Palace balcony as a Red Arrows flypast continued the commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in ...

King George VI and the Queen Mother made eight balcony appearances and were joined by their daughters, Queen Elizabeth II (then Princess Elizabeth) and Princess Margaret, who later famously slipped ...

The 68-year-old actor read extracts from Churchill’s speech from VE Day in 1945, standing in front of a statue of the wartime leader.

Senior royals have joined thousands of people in London to observe a military procession to begin commemorations marking the end of the Second World War in Europe.