Gordon Brown's Royal Lesson

10 November 2009

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Britain's Queen Elizabeth showed Prime Minister Gordon Brown how to bow his head at the Cenotaph yesterday (08.11.09) - only for him to forget minutes later.

The queen was the first to lay a wreath during the Sunday commemorations and solemnly bowed her head as she remembered Britain's fallen war heroes.

But the prime minister shocked onlookers at London's Whitehall by following the gesture - but failed to bow his head and keeping it bolt upright instead.

One onlooker said: "Every other representative bowed, even Her Majesty the Queen. It was an insult to the fallen."

Every other representative bowed, even Her Majesty the Queen. It was an insult to the fallen.

The monarch led the country yesterday in the annual ceremony to remember the war dead.

After a two-minute silence at 11am, she led politicians and military and religious figures in laying a wreath at the base of the war memorial.

Prince Harry - third in line to the throne - stepped up his royal duties by laying a wreath for his father Prince Charles, who is in Canada.

The annual ceremony this year focused on Afghanistan, where soldiers also gathered and laid wreaths at the main British base to remember their colleagues and friends who had died in battle.

A total of 94 British soldiers have died in the country this year - bringing the total to 231 since the war began.

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