The United Kingdom kicked four days national celebrations on Monday for 80 years since the end of World War II in Europe, known as Vijay (VE) Day in Europe. The festival began with a grand military parade, street parties and a Royal Air Force (RAF) with flypests in Central London.
Earlier in the day, red arrows, along with other RAF aircraft, filled the sky over London with red, white and blue at around 1:45 am on bank holiday.
The flypast was followed by a military procession from Whitehall to Buckingham Palace, with more than 1,300 members of the UK armed forces, youth groups and uniformed services. The event will be seen by the royal family and Prime Minister Kir Stmper.
The participating aircraft includes:
- Red arrows
- Typhoon fighter jets
- F-35 stealth fighters
- Air transport aircraft
- P8 posidon monitoring aircraft
- Historical wwii-era aircraft
- A400m Atlas, C-17 Globemaster, and Rivet Joint (Rehearsal on 29 April)
VE Day 80 – Other incidents
The 80th anniversary of VE Day marks Falls on Thursday, 8 May 2025, the day Nazi Germany formally surrendered in 1945. The ceremony will continue throughout the week:
- A party will ride in HMS Belfast, a wwii-era warship script on the River Temes.
- Queen Camilla will visit a powerful art installation, characterized by a powerful art characterized by 30,000 red ceramic poppi in London Tower, which symbolizes remembrance.
- On May 8, a two -minute national silence will be seen at 12 noon, with participation from the Royal family and government institutions.
- On 8 May 1945, from that historic balcony, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth appeared with Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his two daughters, princesses Elizabeth and Margaret. He accepted a huge crowd of London people, which Churchill declared as “the day of victory in Europe”.
