Downpour can't spoil Royal visit to war memorial

THE King and Queen faced torrential downpours as they marked the centenary of a war memorial commemorating a Scottish town’s war dead.

- By Tony Jones

Charles and Camilla sheltered under umbrellas when they left a wreath at the memorial in Kirkcaldy, Fife, as hundreds of spectators watched the poignant service.

Former prime minister Gordon Brown later joined the King at an event while his wife Sarah Brown met the Queen when she visited a cancer centre run by Maggie’s — an organisation both women offi-cially support.

Cairn

Charles’s first task was to unveil a cairn commissioned to mark the 100th anniversary of the Kirkcaldy War Memorial Gardens and designed as a time capsule for future generations.