A video has gone viral on social media that shows one of the royal guards standing next to Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin fainting and falling right to the floor.
A video shared by 9News Sydney’s Twitter account showed a guard clad in a black uniform first stumbling from his position and then falling flat on the ground.
As seen in the video, three other guards came to his rescue and helped him get emergency aid.
The guard’s collapse comes as hundreds of thousands of mourners thronged the streets of London to pay homage to the late Queen.
Queen Elizabeth’s coffin, draped in the Royal Standard, is now lying in state in London’s Westminster Hall, where it will remain for four days until her funeral on Monday.
Borne on a gun carriage and accompanied by the boom of artillery cannons and the tolling of Big Ben’s bell, the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II was transported on Wednesday from Buckingham Palace to the Palace of Westminster, as per the New York Post.
King Charles III, in full dress uniform and carrying a field marshal’s baton, walked behind the coffin.