The day is used to mark the killing of six million Jewish people by the Nazis in World War Two and millions of other people who lost their lives under Hitler's regime, along with millions more victims who died in later genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.
Landmarks including the London Eye, Perth Bridge and Titanic Belfast were lit up in purple later in the day.At Buckingham Palace, Charles and Camilla met Dr Martin Stern who was taken to Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War as a young boy.
After the candle-lighting ceremony, the King said:"I hope this will be one way of trying to remember all those poor people who had to suffer such horrors for so many years - and still do." Dr Stern, who was born to a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother, survived the Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands and the Theresienstadt ghetto in northern Bohemia after being taken away by officers when he was five.
His father died in a separate camp in 1945, and his mother died due to an infection during childbirth in 1942.Speaking about the lighting of the candles, he said:"That is immensely important. The perpetrators would like that we would just forget about it, move on to other things so they get on quietly with doing more of their horrific crimes.
"Lighting a candle publicly is a marker that makes it hard for tyrants and state criminals to perpetuate their mass crimes quietly.""There is a plague of it, and it is very sinister, because without centuries of antisemitism, Nazism and the Holocaust would not have occurred," he said.Charles and Camilla also met Amouna Adam, from the persecuted Fur tribe, who survived genocide in Darfur in western Sudan, as well as representatives of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.
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