King and Queen to host VE Day tea party for war veterans
King Charles and Queen Camilla will host a tea party at Buckingham Palace for war veterans as part of commemorations to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day.
The King and Queen will also be on the Palace balcony to watch a flypast and attend a celebratory concert for the occasion, which marks the end of World War Two in Europe.
National commemorations and events will begin on 5 May with a military procession of 1,300 members of the armed forces.
According to plans, the procession will start in Parliament Square and a recitation of Winston Churchill’s famous VE Day speech will be read when Big Ben strikes 12:00 BST.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has announced that the military procession will march along the Mall and be watched by the King, the Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.
Source: BBC | Language: English