Queen Lights Beacon to Commemorate VE Day

Queen Elizabeth was at Windsor Castle on Friday, May 8, to light the first of 200 beacons to be lit across the UK in commemoration of VE Day. May 8 marks 70 years since the end of the Second World War in Europe. Elizabeth was accompanied to Windsor by The Duke of Edinburgh, and lit the beacon at 9.30 pm to mark the moment peace was declared in Europe in 1945. Credit: Twitter/Ministry of Defence