The royal guard was collapsed whereas holding a vigil subsequent to the Queen’s coffin.

While Queen Elizabeth II was mendacity in state at Westminster Hall on Wednesday, one thing weird occurred. A contingent guard who was standing near her physique collapsed and fell laborious to the bottom.

The viral video exhibits the guard, who’s wearing a black uniform, at first showing to stumble from his place on the catafalque, an elevated platform the place the Queen’s coffin is positioned.

He sways unsteadily, steps off the platform for a second, then will get again up and takes his place. The crowd audibly gasps when he abruptly falls ahead and lands face-first on the bottom a short while later.

Two males ran over to help him as his cap got here off, exposing a head of white hair. As police and others responded, the BBC, which was live-streaming the ceremony, needed to interrupt its transmission for some time.

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Personnel from the Sovereign’s Bodyguard, the Household Division, or Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London are continuously on responsibility to guard the Queen’s coffin.

Before the state funeral on Monday (September 19) at Westminster Abbey, the nation’s longest-reigning monarch, who handed away on September 8 on the age of 96 after spending 70 years in energy, is laid to relaxation within the capital’s Westminster Hall.

The coffin was taken out of Buckingham Palace for the ultimate time on Wednesday, in entrance of tens of hundreds of individuals, after greater than 48 hours of ready outdoors in all climate situations.

The first full day of Queen Elizabeth II’s lying-in-state is Thursday, giving individuals yet another alternative to bid goodbye to the beloved monarch who’s famend for her unwavering sense of responsibility.