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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.
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 monarch's bearer party is, by long tradition, drawn from Queen's Company, Grenadier Guards, which always maintains a designated team.
HUGO VICKERS: At 12.20pm that Thursday, the Brigade Major of the Grenadier Guards received a phone message that sent a shiver of shock through him.