Her Excellency the Commander-in-Chief and HRH The Prince of Wales/Upperdate: Long video of the ceremony
Seventy years ago King George VI dedicated the National War Memorial :Governor General Michaelle Jean (second left) and Britain's [oops] Prince Charles (right) salute after laying wreaths during Remembrance Day ceremonies at the National War Memorial in Ottawa Nov. 11, 2009.
Photograph by: Chris Wattie [more pictures at link], Reuters
Update: From Paul at Celestial Junk, with a great photograph:
...Upperdate: A one hour video of the ceremony from the CBC. Well done, please just click.
With 9000 plus people in attendance, the Saskatoon Remembrance Day service was the largest indoor service in Canada this year...
Uppestdate: HRH has three "stars", "in his capacity as honorary vice-admiral" one assumes:
posted by Mark, Ottawa at 2:17 p.m.
3 Comments:
CBC coverage was not up to par. There were repeated mis-identifications of musical selections during the wreath-laying. Granatstein remarked that HRH was saluting in Canadian fashion; perhaps, though I thought he was saluting like an anchor-cranker, which he is. The G-G meant well with the uniform, but...whatever. Moreover, the whole ceremony seemed not very sharp; delayed (mis-timed?) fly-past during the reading of the Act of Remembrance, for example. But nice to see HRH arrive last, as the (ahem) ranking personage there.
I guess your mileage may vary on that, Primus. I liked seeing the GG in uniform, and Charles definitely changed his customary salute for the occasion - a cursory check of Google images confirmed that. I too noted the timing of the fly-past was off, but other than that, I enjoyed the ceremony.
As far as CBC is concerned, at least they get Granatstein to do the commentary. I felt more uncomfortable at the panning of cameras during the solemn moments: you just knew someone had to be moving around when there should have been utter calm.
Re: the Uppestdate, I think the 4th (bottom) leaf is obscured by the crown on his ADC to the Queen insignia, i.e. EIIR.
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