For the 65 years of her reign, with only a handful of exceptions, the Queen has led the nation in its Remembrance Sunday commemorations, laying a wreath at the Cenotaph with the Duke of Edinburgh supporting her.

This November, for the first time, the Queen and Duke will instead choose to watch proceedings from a balcony, as the Prince of Wales steps in to represent his mother.

The Queen has asked the Prince to take her place for the key moment of ceremony, in a significant and very visible change to the traditional wreath-laying.

Now 91, the Queen will instead join her 96-year-old husband on the balcony of the nearby Foreign and Commonwealth Office, as the Duke breaks his retirement to honour veterans and the fallen.

It is the first time the Prince will lay the wreath at the Cenotaph watched by his mother.

He has undertaken the role once before, in 1983 while the Queen was undertaking an overseas tour in Kenya.