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Why Kate Middleton, William and the Queen have changed the photos of their social profiles

Prince William, Kate Middleton e Elizabeth II they have just changed the images of all their social profiles. For a touching reason. Celebrate like every year the Remembrance Day, which in all the countries of the Commonwealth, on 11 November, commemorates the fallen of the First World War. The Cambridge took the photo of them smiling during their visit to Ireland in 2020 from their Instagram and Twitter pages to temporarily replace it with a close-up of a red poppy. In the flower, used since 1921 to commemorate the soldiers who died in the war, the number 100 celebrating its anniversary. Last year Kate and William had instead opted for a photo that showed them depositing a wreath of poppies, in 2016, during the celebrations that fall every second Sunday in November.

On the profiles of the royal family, on the other hand, the photo of smiling Elisabetta has been replaced with a shot that portrays her dressed in black, with a red poppy, during Remembrance Sunday in 2004.

Even the prince Carlo e Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, have updated the photos on Clarence House’s social profiles. Publishing a photo in which they pose with volunteers from the Royal British Legion, charitable association in memory of the British soldiers who fell during the first and second world wars. In the shot, everyone wears the red poppy, the red poppy, pinned to their chest.

The last time that real had changed the images of their social profiles was in April, when Philip of Edinburgh died. The Cambridge, for example, had replaced a photo of themselves on Twitter with a black and white shot of the Duke of Edinburgh.

Now they do it for one of the most important celebrations for the English Crown. Especially for the sovereign, that he saw and experienced the horrors of the Second World War on his skin. In 2019, the images of the queen who was moved during the two minutes of silence observed for Remembrance Day went around the world. Just a couple of seconds, a hand that goes to dry her face, which did not escape the cameras of the BBC who broadcast the event live.

At this point since 2018 Elisabetta attends the celebrations from one of the balconies of the Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office in London. His son Charles will lay the crown of poppies on his behalf at the Cenotaph in Whitehall. Even from a balcony, Elisabetta wants to be there. Doctors after the short admission to King Edward VII Hospital they ordered her to rest. But His Majesty, as a source revealed to the Daily Mail, And “Firmly intending” to participate in next Sunday’s celebrations.

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