The Queens funeral 2

[KenAdams]

For when the first one fills up

The pony has made me cry 😢

Me too, with the grooms wearing black arm bands.

The pony 😭😭😭

There have been occasions where horses have ditched their riders and buggered off back to barracks! Think it might have been Kate and Williams wedding? One fell at the jubilee a few months ago because it was pratting about and lost its footing!
If they choose not to behave there is not an awful lot you can do about it!

Oh the pony 😭😭

Emma the pony has set me off again

Link to new thread again when this one is done - www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4637235-the-queens-funeral-3

The pony has done it for me 😭

@pinkyponkyplink red is Blues and Royals, white is Lifeguards. (Their farriers have black ones). They make up the household cavalry which, combined with the five regiments of foot guards makes the household division.

Isn't that why they use the Navy to pull the gun carriage?

I think I read that during Queen Victoria's funeral one of the horses reared up & couldn't be calmed down so the Navy took over & pulled it - hence the tradition.

That got me too!

Thought I was done with crying until... Emma 😭

That wee perfectly timed stamp from Emma the pony ❤️

Everyone involved today must be absolutely exhausted... mentally and physically.

I do hope all of these household staff are looked after.

Oh Emma with her special saddle on and no rider just made me have a little cry!

The groom apparently refused to retire before the Queen. This may be his last working day.

Yes I read two members of the Navy had to run up and stabilise the coffin so that's why they pulled the hearse today.

This slow walking must be more tiring than normal walking

Now I never cried the whole time since her death but seeing Emma the pony, it's all just hit me that she has truly gone!😢

This is so much more personal

And with all the marching on the spot. This walk is so deceptive I thought it would be much shorter.

It is. And they have to March with arms reversed so basically one arm behind their back supporting the gun. They’ll be exhausted by the end I think

Yet they're still in perfect step.

Some very dodgy knees and hips on that procession

Omg the corgis

Oh the corgis….