An engagement that the British Royal Family takes as seriously as anything on its calendar is the annual Armistice Day ceremony at Whitehall's Cenotaph. Standing bareheaded at such a service nine years ago George V caught the cold from which he never fully recovered, yet to repeated suggestions that this ceremony in the murderous November damp be given up, the Royal Family has always turned a deaf ear.
Last week every Briton with a radio and the 3,000 odd who own television sets received much more at this service than they expected. In...
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