D-day commemorations begin for 80th anniversary – in pictures

The Labour leader, Keir Starmer, with the second world war veteran Len Chivers, on board a landing craft in Portsmouth harbour

Netherlands’ troops take part in a ceremony on the beach at Arromanches-les-Bains, Normandy, as part of the D-Day commemorations

Rishi Sunak talks with D-Day veterans at the UK’s national event to mark the 80th anniversary of the landings

The French navy’s school of naval riflemen honour the sailors and soldiers who landed on 6 June 1944 in Colleville-Montgomery, Normandy

Princess Anne looks upon the war graves after the Royal British Legion service to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, at Bayeux cemetery in France

An enthusiast dressed in replica second world war-era military attire on a motorcycle looks on as a DUKW amphibious truck enters the sea at Arromanches-les-Bains, north-west France

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, and his wife, Brigitte, meet the US D-Day veteran Steven Melnikoff in Saint-Lô, France

US and Belgian military paratroopers jump from a Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft chartered and navigated by US crew, as it flies over Normandy, north-west France

British, Belgian, Canadian and US military take part in a parachute jump display organised by the Royal Air Force and British Army over drop zone K near Sannerville, France, to commemorate the role of the airborne forces during the Normandy landings

The RAF Red Arrows perform a flypast over Portsmouth

War veterans attend a Royal British Legion commemoration service at the Bayeux war cemetery in Normandy, France

US second world war veterans gather in the town of Sainte-Mère-Église in north-west France

The second world war veteran Kenneth Smith, who served as a petty officer on board the USS Satterlee off the coast of Normandy on D-Day, says ‘What a beautiful day!’ after a ceremony honouring the US army rangers who lost their lives assaulting German positions above the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc, Normandy

Paratroopers from the British, Belgian, Canadian and US military take part in a parachute drop in the fields of Sannerville as they reenact the D-Day landings of 80 years ago

US second world war veteran Don Graves is greeted by a young boy during an American Airlines parade in Sainte-Mère-Église, Normandy

The RAF veteran Bernard Morgan, 100, from Crewe, England, visits the war graves before the Royal British Legion service to commemorate D-Day at Bayeux cemetery

King Charles III meets a second world war veteran during the UK’s national commemorative event for the 80th anniversary of D-Day in Portsmouth, Hampshire

The US veteran Mel Jenner, Army Air Corps 452nd bomb group radio operator, shakes hands with onlookers in the streets of Sainte-Mère-Église, north-west France

The SNP’s deputy leader, Keith Brown, talks to the second world war veteran Terry Webb at Lothian veterans’ centre to mark the anniversary of D-Day in Dalkeith, Scotland

Army musicians perform at a multinational parachute drop as 400 British, Belgian, Canadian and US paratroopers jump to commemorate the contribution of airborne forces as part of the 80th anniversary of D-Day, in Sannerville, Normandy

Kayakers from the Royal Marines Association paddle group arrive at Port-en-Bessin-Huppain, Normandy, after crossing the Channel from Portsmouth. The team consisted of nine serving and eight veteran royal marines and paddled through the night on two-person Klepper folding kayaks

Pictures are projected on to a huge screen during the UK’s national commemorative event for the 80th anniversary of D-Day, hosted by the Ministry of Defence on Southsea common

Second world war re-enactors dance in Sainte-Mère-Église town square, Normandy, France

Emma Barton performs during the UK’s national commemorative event for the 80th anniversary of D-Day, on Southsea common, Portsmouth

Singer Marisha Wallace performs Sing, Sing, Sing during the D-Day celebrations in Portsmouth

Members of the US joint military service academy choir drink coffee in a bar before a ceremony at Utah beach near Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, Normandy