Eighty years on, the UK remembered VE Day with a gathering in the same streets where the defeat of Nazi Germany was greeted with delight and relief in 1945.
Senior members of the royal family watched a military parade from the Victoria Memorial, one of many gathering points in 1945 as the news sunk in. Even the young Princess Elizabeth and her sister Margaret were among the crowds chanting “we want the King” after getting permission from their parents to slip out of the Palace and join the throng.
