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As day turned to evening on the day Elizabeth II died, King Charles was calmly fielding and making calls while responding to a growing list of requests for a decision. One of the most urgent was a simple one: when to press the start button for London Bridge? In the finest military traditions, thousands of pages of careful planning still needed an official start time, to be known as D or D-Day.
Only practice procession saw marchers out of step and Gentleman at Arms almost crushed, royal biography says
The only rehearsal for Elizabeth II’s funeral was a “comedy of errors” in which a band went missing, the buses did not turn up, and a Gentleman at Arms was nearly crushed after turning the wrong way at Marble Arch, it has emerged.
A new biography by Robert Hardman describes the chaos as organisers found that 'everything that could go wrong did go wrong'
MAIL ON SUNDAY EXCLUSIVE: The Queen's funeral plans allowed for just one rehearsal for the entire procession in London. It took place on September 15, in the very early hours of the morning.