Here’s What The 75th Anniversary Of VE Day Looks Like During Coronavirus

On Friday in Britain, Prince Charles led the country in a moment of silence, and military jets were flown over the U.K.’s four capital cities—and while residents are largely still housebound under the nationwide stay-at-home order, many families held tea parties, forties-style to mark the date.

In Paris, President Emmanuel Macron laid a wreath at the Arc de Triomphe at a sparse memorial service—the nearby Champs-Elysees Avenue, usually bustling with shoppers and tourists, laid nearly empty.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Chancellor Angela Merkel and other government leaders kept their distance as they laid wreaths at Berlin’s Neue Wache, the memorial to victims of war.

President Donald Trump was joined by eight World War II veterans for a wreath-laying ceremony in Washington D.C., but observed social distancing measures—with the youngest veteran in attendance clocking in at age 96, the group is particularly at-risk for coronavirus complications.