Queen’s coffin carriers were flown back from Iraq to take part in procession

The guards introduced the Queen into Westminster Corridor (Image: AFP/ Getty)

The Queen’s coffin carriers had been flown again from Iraq to participate in her procession.

Pallbearers from the first Battalion Grenadier Guards carried her Majesty into Westminster Corridor after she made her last journey from Buckingham Palace.

The eight guards – whose firm commander is The Queen – are all troopers who had been on placement in Iraq.

Often solely six troopers would carry a coffin, nonetheless because of the lead lining an additional two had been wanted to hold the Queen.

The Grenadier Guards is probably the most senior common Military regiment and dates again to 1656 – it was raised as Lord Wentworth’s Regiment to guard the exiled Charles II.

The oak coffin she was made round thirty years in the past, and in the present day the guardsmen introduced the Queen to lie-in-state for 4 days in Westminster.

Though we don’t know everybody that has carried the Queen’s coffin, one younger soldier from Fiji was specifically chosen as one of many pallbearers within the Edinburgh ceremony final week.

Ben Tubuna was seen serving to carry the coffin outdoors the Palace of Holyroodhouse because it entered St Giles’ Cathedral.

The pallbearers from The Grenadier Guards carried her Majesty’s coffin (Image: AFP)

The heavy casket required two additional guards (Image: AFP)

The Queen will now be mendacity in state for the subsequent 4 days (Image: AP)

Tubuna, from the Rewa province, lives in Inverness and is a part of the Royal Regiment in Edinburgh.

The 21-year-old, acknowledged the privilege he had been given to be part of the momentous event.

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He advised the Fiji Occasions: ‘I felt blessed that being a Fijian, I used to be given such an essential activity.

‘However I accepted it with humility as a result of that is my job – it's a position I've to fulfil as a soldier.’

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