Remembrance Day: Queen leads Britain's mourning of its war dead Politicians joined royals at the annual Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the Cenotaph in London. Britain fell silent at Remembrance Day services across the country to remember those who died fighting in all conflicts since the first world war. The Queen led the nation in honouring the dead soldiers at the Cenotaph memorial in London, where she laid the first wreath. In brilliant autumn sunshine, she was joined by senior royals, David Cameron, military chiefs, servicemen and women, and thousands of spectators. At the first stroke of eleven sounded from nearby Big Ben, Whitehall observed a two-minute silence punctuated only by the hum of distant London traffic and birds. The Duke of Cambridge - wearing his RAF uniform and watched by the Duchess of Cambridge from a Foreign Office balcony alongside the Countess of Wessex and the Princess Royal's husband, Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Lawrence - followed his grandmother the Queen in laying a wreath. William was followed by the Duke of York, the Earl of Wessex, the Princess Royal, Prince Michael of Kent and Field Marshal Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank. Wreaths were also laid by the prime minister, the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, opposition leader Ed Miliband and Westminster Plaid Cymru group leader Elfyn Llwyd, as well as high commissioners from Commonwealth countries and leaders of the armed forces. The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall earlier attended a ceremony in Auckland as part of their jubilee tour of New Zealand. Under grey skies the royals sat with New Zealand's prime minister John Key, veterans from across the decades, and members of the public around the Auckland Cenotaph. The Duke of Kent was also overseas, representing the Queen at a service in the Falkland Islands. Thousands of people also respected the two-minute silence on Twitter, abstaining from posting messages during the period of reflection. The idea was spread using the hashtag #2minutesilence. In Northern Ireland, the prime minister of the Republic of Ireland, Taoiseach Enda Kenny, attended the remembrance service in Enniskillen. The symbolic visit came as the Co Fermanagh town marked the 25th anniversary of the IRA poppy day bomb attack, which claimed the lives of 12 people. Kenny laid a laurel wreath at the cenotaph, only yards from where the no-warning blast detonated a quarter of a century ago.