This Armistice Day, I was honoured to welcome the Duchess of Cornwall to St Margaret’s Church, Parliament Square, in my capacity as Parliamentary Warden.
We opened the 93rd Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey.
The annual event, which marks the start of the nation’s Remembrance commemorations, has been held every year since 1928, when The Poppy Factory brought a tray of poppies and a collecting tin to the grounds of St Margaret's Church.
On that first occasion, only a handful of poppies were planted around a single cross, but it began a tradition that has grown over the decades, and now a sea of scarlet poppies covers the Abbey grounds each November.
Each year we remember them with hope that we may never face such attrocities again. Every moment of peace may be built upon the sacrifices of others.
