The Queen is giving a televised address to the nation, marking the 75th anniversary of VE Day.
Her message is airing exactly 75 years after her father, King George VI, gave his radio address on VE Day in 1945.
The speech, which began at 21:00 BST on BBC One, is her second televised address of the coronavirus outbreak.
Victory in Europe (VE) Day marks the day in 1945 when Britain and its allies accepted the surrender of Nazi Germany, bringing the war in Europe to an end.
The Queen’s message marks the culmination of a raft of events throughout Friday, remembering the war and celebrating its end in Europe.
Earlier, the UK held a two-minute silence, led by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, to honour the war’s servicemen and women.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson thanked the VE Day generation, saying “our gratitude will be eternal”.
He said: “We can’t hold the parades and street celebrations we enjoyed in the past, but all of us who were born since 1945 are acutely conscious that we owe everything we most value to the generation who won the Second World War.”
In Westminster, Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle laid a wreath on behalf of the House of Commons.
The Royal Air Force display team the Red Arrows staged a flypast over London, while RAF Typhoon jets flew over Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast.
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The Red Arrows flew over Horse Guards Parade in central London
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Mr Johnson said the coronavirus outbreak demanded “the same spirit of national endeavour” as shown during wartime
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Veteran Signalman Eric Bradshaw, who is isolating after testing positive for Covid-19, has been celebrating VE Day at his care home in Oldham, Greater Manchester
In the afternoon, solo buglers, trumpeters and cornet players across the country played the Last Post from their homes.
Extracts from Sir Winston Churchill’s VE Day speech were broadcast, 75 years after it was first heard and people were encouraged to join in a toast from their homes.
Later in the evening, Welsh soprano Katherine Jenkins, actor Adrian Lester and singer Beverley Knight, performed well-known songs from the 1930s and 40s and the public joined in a sing-along to Vera Lynn’s wartime classic, We’ll Meet Again.
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