Twelve months ago, wearing the same marshal’s uniform, he laid the first wreath at the Cenotaph in Whitehall as he stood up to the Queen. But this year was different. The King is now commander-in-chief of the armed forces, and the role his mother once considered one of the most important tasks on her calendar now belongs to him. National Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph in Westminster And seamlessly, imperceptibly, the immutable traditions of the nation change. The King now lays only one wreath, instead of the two he used to lay
