The rafredarrows fly over London's landmarks, including Buckingham Palace, to commemorate 75 years since VE Day. Follow the latest on VEDay75 here:
21:20Sky's royal correspondent Rhiannon Mills said:"For the Palace and the government, it's been important to coordinate these messages to time these messages for when people needed reminding."It was hugely personal for her, she's the only living head of state who was there during the Second World War, she has those vivid memories of being in the palace and on the streets.
"An officer told her to pull the cap up properly, and I think she has a lovely bit of humour about that memory."'I remember jelly and blancmange'She said:"My mother said 'Gill You're going to a party today', I said whose party?"They said I had to go and I'd seen people I hadn't seen all my life as I was only five.
"The wartime generation knew that the best way to honour those who did not come back from the war, was to ensure that it didn't happen again. King George VI:"Let us remember the men of all the services and the women in all of the services who have laid down their lives. The Queen will make her address just over a month after her last address to the nation on the coronavirus pandemic.
Ties with the UK remain badly strained after the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in England, which London blames on the Russian state.
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