Britain’s King Charles and heir to the throne Prince William laid wreaths in Westminster Abbey on Thursday at the culmination of the country’s four days of commemorations to mark the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day.

I’m at Westminster Abbey, where a special service is going to be held from midday to commemorate VE Day. The service is both an act of shared remembrance, and a celebration of the end of fighting in Europe. There will also be a two minutes’ silence.

At 3pm eighty years ago on May 8, 1945, then Prime Minister Winston Churchill took to the airwaves to announce that Nazi Germany had unconditionally surrendered - and that the cruelty of World War II