Queen greets General Sir Nick Carter at Windsor Castle

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On Tuesday, Prince Edward laid a wreath at a Last Post ceremony as President of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC). On Twitter, the Royal Family explained: “This moving tribute is performed every day at 8pm at the Menin Gate in memory of British and Commonwealth soldiers killed and buried in and around Ypres.”

It comes after the Queen was forced to miss commemorations for Remembrance Sunday at the weekend due to a sprained back.

Claire Horton CBE, Secretary General of the CWGC said she was “honoured” to join the Duke of Kent at the event.

Today, the Duke and Ms Horton were present for the burial of nine British World War 1 soldiers with full military honours at the Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium.

The men’s remains were first discovered in 2018 and seven of the nine have been identified.

They now lie under headstones bearing their names and personal inscriptions chosen by their descendants in Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium.

Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent, 85, is the Queen’s first cousin.

His father, Prince George – the younger brother of King George VI and King Edward VIII – was the Queen’s uncle.

The Duke of Kent is 39th in line to the throne but still carries out royal duties on behalf of the Crown.

He was among the 30 guests who attended Prince Philip’s funeral in April and is a much-loved member of the Royal Family.

He graduated from Sandhurst in 1955 as a second lieutenant in the Royal Scots Greys and was promoted to Captain in 1961.

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The Duke of Kent commanded a squadron serving in the British Sovereign Base Area in Cyprus in 1970, as part of the UN peacekeeping force between Greek and Turkish parts of the island.

In the 1970s, he served in Northern Ireland and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1973.

He retired from the army in 1976 and was promoted to field marshal in 1993.

His roles include President of the RAF Benevolent Fund, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and the British Racing Drivers’ Club.

The Queen was forced to miss commemorations at the weekend.

It came after the cancellation of several public appearances after she spent a night in hospital last month.

Buckingham Palace said in a statement on the morning that “with great regret that she will not be able to attend today’s Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph.

“Her Majesty is disappointed that she will miss the service.”

However, today (Wednesday) the Queen made her first public appearance in nearly a month at Windsor Castle, when she held a face-to-face audience with General Sir Nick Carter.

The chief of the defence staff is preparing to step down from his role.

She also held a face-to-face audience with Boris Johnson last week, but was not pictured doing so.

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