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Britain’s Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall joined her husband Prince Charles, French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni at a Remembrance day memorial service in France yesterday.

The royal couple were greeted like old friends when they arrived at the Elysee Palace ahead of the Armistice Day commemorations – which this year marked the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War – with the president bending to kiss Camilla on the hand.

The quartet attended a service in Fort Dounaumont in Verdun, north-west France where they stood and remembered those killed at war. As they stood solemnly, Camilla could be clearly seen wearing a red poppy and blue cornflower – the French equivalent of the flower sported as a symbol of memorial on Armistice day.

Charles and Camilla’s decision to attend the service in Verdun, an exclusively Franco-German battlefield, has caused controversy with some British veterans.