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Britain buried a man among its kings. 👑 To this day, nobody knows his name. ❓ Not his family. Not the army. Not even the officer who chose him. 🤫 It was meant to be that way. 🕊️ In 1916, an army chaplain stopped at a grave in a back garden in France. 🪦 Someone had pencilled on its cross: "An unknown British soldier." ✏️ For four years, he told no one what it made him think. Then he wrote to Westminster Abbey. ✉️ His coffin was made from an oak tree at Hampton Court. 🌳 Dover Castle gave him a nineteen-gun salute, usually kept for a field marshal. 💥 The King walked behind him on foot, as chief mourner. 🇬🇧 The guests of honour were around a hundred ordinary women. Each had lost her husband and every one of her sons. 💔 Today, his is the only grave in the Abbey nobody may walk on. 🌺 They buried him among the kings, because he had done good toward God and toward his house. 🙏 We will remember them. 🌺 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

Britain's first poppies weren't made in Britain. 🇫🇷 In 1921, every one was shipped over from France. 🚢 Back home, thousands of men had come back from the trenches without an arm, a leg or an eye. Many couldn't find work. 💔 One wounded officer, Major George Howson, had an idea. Britain's poppies, made by Britain's wounded. 🌺 He wrote home: "I do not think it can be a great success. But it is worth trying." ✍️ In June 1922, five disabled men sat down at a bench on the Old Kent Road. 🪑 Within two months, they'd made a million. 🤯 By 1924, twenty-seven million. Enough for more than half the people in Britain. 🇬🇧 A century later, veterans there still make the royal wreaths laid at the Cenotaph. 🕊️ So now, when you put yours on, you can also remember where it came from. 🙏 We will remember them. 🌺 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧