LONDON: King Charles III and other members of the royal family will wear black armbands and there will be a moment of silence during his annual birthday parade Saturday as the monarch commemorates those who died in this week\u2019s Air India plane crash.
\nCharles requested the symbolic moves \u201cas a mark of respect for the lives lost, the families in mourning and all the communities affected by this awful tragedy,\u201d Buckingham Palace said.
\nAn Air India flight from the northwestern city of Ahmedabad to London crashed shortly after takeoff on Thursday, killing 241 people on board and at least 29 on the ground. The plane was carrying 169 Indians, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese and one Canadian. One man survived.
\nIn addition to being Britain\u2019s head of state, Charles is the head of the Commonwealth, an organization of independent states that includes India and Canada.
\nThe monarch\u2019s annual birthday parade, known as Trooping the Color, is a historic ceremony filled with pageantry and military bands in which the king reviews his troops on Horse Guards Parade adjacent to St. James\u2019 Park in central London.
\nAll members of the royal family taking part in the parade will wear black armbands. The moment of silence will occur when the king is on the dais after reviewing the troops.
\nCharles\u2019 mother, Queen Elizabeth II, held a similar moment of silence in 2017 when Trooping the Color took place three days after a fire ripped through the Grenfell Tower apartment bloc in west London, killing 72 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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