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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.
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.
Thousands rushed to praise the "flawless" and "faultless" job the men did - and that's without even seeing their final act when cameras stopped rolling.
The late Queen Elizabeth II was thought to have played an active role in arranging the details of her grand state funeral, but there was one simple final wish she had for herself