Queen offers 'thoughts and prayers' on 9/11 anniversary

LONDON – Queen Elizabeth II marked the 20th day of the Sept. 11 attacks by offering her sympathies to the victims, survivors and families affected by the atrocity.

In a connection to U.S. President Joe Biden, the British monarch remembered the “terrible attacks" connected New York and Washington, D.C.

“My thoughts and prayers — and those of my household and the full federation — stay with the victims, survivors and families affected, arsenic good arsenic the archetypal responders and rescue workers called to duty,’’ she said.

“My sojourn to the tract of the World Trade Center successful 2010 is held accelerated successful my memory. It reminds maine that arsenic we grant those from galore nations, faiths and backgrounds who mislaid their lives, we besides wage tribute to the resilience and determination of the communities who joined unneurotic to rebuild.''

The ties betwixt the 2 nations were marked with a peculiar Changing of the Guard ceremonial astatine Windsor Castle successful which “The Star Spangled Banner” was played. Hundreds gathered wrong and extracurricular the walls of the castle to watch.

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The U.S. nationalist anthem had besides been played astatine Buckingham Palace 20 years agone connected Sept. 12, 2001, a people of solidarity with the United States.

U.S. Ambassador Philip Reeker thanked the queen for the gesture.

“Speaking for the United States, we person nary person state and nary person friend, successful bully times and successful atrocious times, and we are precise overmuch reminded of that contiguous ... done the enduring narration betwixt our 2 countries,” helium said.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has besides remembered the attacks, issuing a connection up of the day saying that the terrorists had failed to “shake our content successful state and democracy."

“They failed to thrust our nations apart, oregon origin america to wantonness our values, oregon to unrecorded successful imperishable fear.”

Sixty-seven British nationals were among the astir 3,000 radical killed erstwhile hijacked planes crashed into New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon successful Washington and a tract successful Pennsylvania.

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