According to General The Lord Dannatt, the UK s former Chief of the General Staff, the soldiers final task were the ones to finally lay the Queen s body to rest - 11 days after her death in Balmoral.
While their steady shoulders impressed all of those who watched yesterday, it is their friends and families of the eight young pallbearers who are today bursting with pride.
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