LONDON, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Prince Charles laid a wreath at London's Cenotaph monument Saturday, as part of Britain's Remembrance ceremonies for the country's war dead.
Hundreds of people watched as the Prince of Wales laid the wreath in front of 140 military widows near the Houses of Parliament, the BBC reported.
The Prince of Wales joined in prayers with members of the War Widows' Association of Great Britain and then, because a train delay kept a choir from attending the ceremony, the prince led the widows in reading aloud several hymns.
"This is a day for the ladies to personally reflect on their loss," said Samantha Roberts, whose husband Steven was the first British soldier to die in the Iraq war. "I feel I am representing all those who have lost people in Iraq."
A doctor with the Royal Navy, Tom Kirk, one of Britain's last surviving World War I veterans, had been invited to attend the Cenotaph ceremony as well as Sunday's Remembrance Day ceremony, but he died at the age of 105 earlier this week.
His daughter June Walker said he died peacefully at his home in Woolsington, England.
