A 10-year-old girl from Stirling who wept when reunited with her Royal Navy father at the Festival of Remembrance said she "completely froze" when she saw him.
Megan Adams ran across the arena of the Royal Albert Hall to embrace Lieutenant Commander Billy Adams, who returned three months early from anti-piracy operations in the Indian Ocean.
She was among five daughters of servicemen chosen to perform this year's Poppy Appeal single The Call (No Need to Say Goodbye).
Megan said: "At first I thought, is that really him? Did he come all of this way for me? I completely froze."
When host Huw Edwards told her he had a surprise for her, she looked at the big screen, expecting a video message.
Only when fellow Poppy Girls Alice Milburn, 13, and Bethany Davey, 15, turned her in the right direction did she spot her father in the flesh.
Alice, whose father has served in the Royal Navy since he was 19 and whose mother was in the RAF for eight years, and Bethany, whose father was in the army before joining the Reserves, were told in advance in case Megan was too shocked to move.
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