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The Cenotaph

The empty tomb on Whitehall where the sovereign lays the first wreath each November.

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Photo by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Lutyens's Portland stone cenotaph of 1920 has no religious symbol and no name, only the dates of the two wars and a stone wreath, and it became the centre of national remembrance because of what happens here on the second Sunday of November: the silence at eleven, the royal wreaths, the march past. Elizabeth II laid a wreath here nearly every year of her reign and her funeral procession passed it; the flags of the Commonwealth fly around it.

Where
Whitehall, SW1A 2AX
Nearest station
Westminster · 2 min walk

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