Er's Four Poppies On Sunday.

[sandyRoe]

Do each of them represent a country of the UK?

[emmie]

i expect it does, after all we are the United Kingdom......

[Pete65]

Five, I think.

[emmie]

i thought too it was 4 but i wasn't watching the Queen so much as the parade.

[bhg481]

It was 5 - 2 were tilted and seemed to merge into 1 from some angles. No idea of the significance.

[grumpy01]

The four poppies represent,The Army,Royal Navy,Royal Air Force and Civil Defence.

[emmie]

to represent Wales, Scotland, England, Northern and Southern Ireland perhaps.

[emmie]

thank you for that grumpy...

[grumpy01]

Glad to have cleared that one up.

[douglas9401]

A conversation piece to stimulate guesswork put forward as informed debate?

[Neveracrossword]

It is 'thought' but not known for sure that the five are grumpy's four plus 'women'.

[murraymints]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/7700137/why-queen-kate-middleton-wear-multiple-poppies-remembrance-day/

3 services, civil defence and women

[emmie]

so there are five in all...

[poorclare]

Hue Edwards said there were 5 poppies.
possibly England Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland,
but NOT Southern or Republic of Ireland, could the fifth be
the Isle of Man ?

[Neveracrossword]

I think the definitive answer is that no-one - other than the Queen - knows!

[rowanwitch]

Because she can....

[poorclare]

I agree with you Neveracrossword

[Ken4155]

I think she wore 5 poppies to deflect attention from Jezza - didn't work, did it? :-)

[Hopkirk]

Perhaps she should wear one for each member of the commonwealth.

[douglas9401]

It's all the result of a typo.
Her maj was placing an order for replacement corgis and hit the'o' instead of 'u'.