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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.
They sat in silence around the table in the darkened room, hands touching, faces uplifted in the flickering candlelight - the Queen, Prince Philip and the Queen Mother.
Brigadier James Stopford was in the middle of his father-of-the-bride speech when his mobile phone alerted him to the news from home and he quickly jumped on a plane
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.
MAIL ON SUNDAY EXCLUSIVE: The monarch's bearer party is, by long tradition, drawn from Queen's Company, Grenadier Guards, which always maintains a designated team.