THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, HONOURED BY QUEENS, BURIED WITH KINGS.

AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER IS EXHUMED FROM THE BATTLEFIELDS OF FRANCE TO RETURN BACK TO HIS HOME, WHERE A KING AND A COUNTRY, FOR WHOM HE FOUGHT AND DIED, PREPARE TO HONOUR HIM.
IT WAS THE 10TH NOVEMBER 1920, AT THE CASTLE CITADEL AT BOULOGNE, FRANCE.
THE SHIP HMS VERDUN WILL CARRY HIM BACK TO THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER, WHERE 19 CANNONS WILL ANNOUNCE HIS ARRIVAL TO THE NATION.
AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE, THE KING OF ENGLAND, GEORGE V, JOINS THE CORTEGE WALKING BEHIND THE COFFIN TO WESTIMSTER ABBEY FOR BURIAL, AMONG THE KINGS OF ENGLAND.
DRESSED IN BLACK, MOTHERS AND WIDOWS LAY THEIR FLOWERS.
100 MEN, FELLOW SOLDIERS, FORM HIS GUARD OF HONOUR. EACH THE WINNER OF THE VICTORIA CROSS FOR BRAVERY IN THE GREAT WAR.
100 WOMEN SIT IN THE CONGREGATION, EACH ONE HAVING LOST BOTH THEIR HUSBAND AND ALL THEIR SONS IN THE GREAT WAR.
100 SAND BAGS WILL BURY THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, EACH ONE FILLED WITH SOIL FROM BATTLEFIELDS OF THE GREAT WAR.
IN 1923 LADY BOWES-LYON, THE FUTURE QUEEN MOTHER, MARRIES THE DUKE OF YORK. SHE PLACES HER WEDDING BOUQUET UPON THE TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER. SINCE THEN ALL ROYAL BRIDES HAVE LEFT THEIR BOUQUET IN THESAME PLACE.
BEFORE HER PASSING IN 2002, SHE MADE IT CLEAR THAT HER OWN FUNERAL WREATH WAS TO BE PLACED UPON HIS TOMB.