Prince William and Princess Kate paid a heartfelt tribute to the love stories created and sacrificed during wartime.
On November 9, Kensington Palace released a heart-touching video, featuring a poem, Letters From a Battlefield, written and performed by the Arboretum’s Poet-in-Residence Arji Manuelpillai.
The statement alongside the video reads, "Written for the @royalbritishlegion’s ‘Remembering VE Day - 80 Years On’ Service of Remembrance at the National Memorial Arboretum."
"This poem celebrates those moments of human connection which carry us through the hardest times... Lest We Forget."
The future King and Queen honoured the connection between the war heroes and their loved ones, which gave them hope and strength during hard times.
The newly posted video on social media began as, "Before the morning realises what day it is, a woman hangs on the coattails of a curtain."
The poem continues, "A postman's whistle is a favourite song, and a letter is a lifeline, an offering pressed to her chest like a medic presses a wound closed. She'll study each sound, the loop-de-loop of the 'd, the way the 'l' finds a new moon to crawl into. The words 'my darling wife' and 'I am thinking of you.'"
“In war-torn times, love can be mundane, beautifully. Love can be the only hope we have."
It is important to note that today, November 9, the royal family, including King Charles, Queen Camilla, Prince William, Princess Kate and other key figures, have gathered at the national memorial service at the Cenotaph in central London.
The monarch and the Prince of Wales, in their uniform field marshal and Royal Air Force uniform respectively, laid wreaths in a bid to honour the war heroes.
Whereas, Camilla and Catherine were observed at the sombre ceremony from the balcony of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
