The UK has fallen silent to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, with the Red Arrows performing a London flypast and people around the country celebrating in homes and gardens.
The RAF display team flew over London on Friday morning and Typhoons also took to the sky in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast.
Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall led the two-minute silence at 11am by laying a wreath at Balmoral – a handwritten message read: "In everlasting remembrance".
An address by the Queen to the nation will be broadcast on Friday evening.
VE Day marks the day the Second World War ended in Europe, after the Allies accepted the Nazi surrender.
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Thousands flooded the streets to celebrate after Sir Winston Chuchill announced Germany's "unconditional surrender", ending six devastating years of war.
His famous address was again broadcast on television on Friday afternoon as Britons were invited to toast the wartime generation with: "To those who gave so much, we thank you".
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The Queen will address the nation in a pre-recorded message at 9pm – the exact time her father made his broadcast in 1945.
The coronavirus crisis meant many VE Day plans were cancelled or scaled down, but people have made the best of the good weather to dress their houses in bunting and pay tribute from their gardens.
Residents of Cambrian Road in Chester donned period clothing and brought tables and chairs onto the street for a socially distanced tea party.
In St Neots, Cambridgeshire, "VE 75" was mown in huge letters on one street, alongside a chalk-drawn Union flag.
A Spitfire aircraft with "Thank You NHS" on its nose also flew over southern England, passing locations such as a care home with 44 wartime residents, and the homes of fundraiser Colonel Tom Moore and Forces' sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn.
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