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Michael Howie

Princess Royal attends dawn Anzac Day service at Wellington Arch

Anzac Day has been marked in London with the Princess Royal attending a dawn ceremony at Wellington Arch in Hyde Park Corner.

Organised by the New Zealand and Australian High Commissions, Anne arrived for the service shortly before it started at 5am.

Anzac Day commemorates the 1915 Gallipoli landing of Australian and New Zealand troops in the First World War.

The Princess Royal attends a dawn service commemorating Anzac Day at the New Zealand Memorial at Hyde Park Corner (David Parry/PA)

Anne laid a wreath against Wellington Arch during a service that included a reading of the John McCrae poem In Flanders Fields and concluded with the national anthems of the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.

Services were also held across New Zealand, Australia and Gallipoli on Saturday morning.

The occasion was also marked in Villers-Bretonneux, a village in the Somme region of France, which Australian units helped defend during the First World War.

A post on the Royal Family X account on Saturday morning read: “Today is #ANZACDay – which honours the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who served and died in all wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations.”

The Princess of Wales is due to attend the Anzac Day wreath-laying and parade service at the Cenotaph and a service of commemoration and thanksgiving at Westminster Abbey later on Saturday.

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