Runners in the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, each carrying a flaming Peace Torch, converged on London’s Hyde Park for Britain’s V.E. Day celebrations.
As some 200,000 spectators watched on, the four Peace Torches were used to light a fifth Torch, which Sir Winston Churchill’s great-granddaughter presented to Queen Elizabeth II. Her Majesty, in turn, used it to light a 40-foot-high beacon commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe.