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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge joined 50 heads of state at the St Symphorien cemetery near Mons to commemorate the invasion of Belgium in 1914. The Prince of Wales attended a service at Glasgow cathedral; the Duchess of Cornwall attended a service at Westminster Abbey where a lighted flame was put out at 11p.m., the hour that Britain had declared war on Germany on 4 August. Many people in Britain kept one light burning for an hour that evening. The Queen attended a private service at Craithie church, near Balmoral. In the grassy moat of the Tower of London, 888,246 ceramic poppies were being planted, one for each British and Colonial death in the first world war.
Baroness Warsi resigned as a Foreign Office minister, tweeting a long letter to the Prime Minister in which she said ‘our policy in relation to the Middle East Peace Process generally’ was ‘morally indefensible’ and declared that ‘William Hague was probably one of the finest Foreign Secretaries this country has seen’.
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