Britain's Queen Elizabeth II prepares to lay a wreath during the Remembrance Sunday service in Whitehall, London on November 8, 2009. Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is to lead the tributes to Britain's war dead alongside political leaders. Services are held across the country to remember servicemen and women who have been killed in past and current conflicts. British public support for the war in Afghanistan is falling, while more than 40 percent do not understand why British troops are fighting there, a poll released on Remembrance Sunday showed.