Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II ordered the daily ceremonial parade to break a 600-year tradition to show solidarity with America in its time of great loss.
Behind the gates of Buckingham Palace, for the first and only time in United Kingdom history, at the request of the Queen, the Coldstream guards wereOver 3,000 people watched the 45-minute ceremony at Buckingham Palace, including hundreds of Americans who were overseas during the attacks.
For hundreds of years, the Bands of the Household Division had only played a mix of traditional British songs of nationalism. The only other time that foreign national anthems are played is when foreign dignitaries come to Buckingham Palace for state visits. The Queen had also attended a ceremony honoring the lives lost during the Sept. 11 attacks at St Paul’s Cathedral, where the Star-Spangled Banner was once again played.
Thousands of people line the gates of Buckingham Palace on Sept. 13, 2001, observing a two minute moment of silence during the changing of the guard ceremony in honor of the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.Queen Elizabeth arrives at ground zero to dedicate a wreath of flowers in remembrance of the victims of the attacks on September 11, 2001, on July 6, 2010, in New York City.
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