Prince William followed his father in laying a wreath at the Cenotaph in central London. Photo: AP PHOTO

King Charles III has led the United Kingdom's annual ceremony of remembrance for the country's war dead, under November sunshine and the shadow cast across Europe by the almost four-year-old war in Ukraine.

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As Parliament's Big Ben bell tolled 11am, thousands of military personnel, veterans and members of the public gathered in central London fell still for two minutes of silence, broken by a single artillery blast and Royal Marines buglers sounding The Last Post.

The 76-year-old

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