Four generations of the royal family have paid tribute to Second World War veterans in a balcony appearance at Buckingham Palace to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day.

Buckingham Palace’s famous balcony hosted the royal family’s VE Day commemorations 80 years after King George VI first marked the Second World War’s end from the same spot.

The event in the city’s Woodstock Road came ahead of the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe.

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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.

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Senior royals waved to thousands of people from the Buckingham Palace balcony as a Red Arrows flypast continued the commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in ...

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