Royal Family out in force to honour armed forces with new memorial

The Royal Family was out in force on Thursday to honour the work of British soldiers and civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Gulf.

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, Prince William and his wife Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Harry, Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, Prince Phillip and his wife Sophie, the Countess of Wessex all attended the service of commemoration in London.

Also in attendance were Britain’s top politicians and former politicians, including serving prime minister Theresa May and former PMs John Major, David Cameron and, more controversially, Tony Blair, under whose leadership the wars were fought. Prince Harry and other members of the Royal Family spoke to members of the armed forcers.

The Queen also officially opened the Iraq and Afghanistan Memorial at Victoria Embankment Gardens.

Catherine, wearing a buttoned-up blue coat and broad-brimmed hat, looked happy as she sat between Prince William and Philip Hammond, the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

But one small attendee was less pleased with the pomp and ceremony.

Photographers caught two-year-old Alfie Lunn, whose father Mark Lunn served in Iraq and his mother Michele Lunn in Afghanistan, throwing a little tantrum, before he recovered his good humour in time to present the monarch with a bunch of flowers.