Coronation guards pass out while handling crowds lining up 24 hours early

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coronation of King Charles III on Saturday — though not all were cut out for the marathon event.Incidents of fainting men in uniform were shared Friday on social media.

One video posted by the official TikTok account for The King’s Guards shows a member of their ranks, who fainted during an all-night rehearsal, being carried through the streets on a stretcher.“It happens, I dare say he has been standing for hours,” one online viewer commented on the post.Someone else chimed in with a helpful tip for others in waiting: “You have to wiggle your toes to get the blood flowing through the body.”Another clip shows yet another guardsman being lifted in a stretcher to be escorted out of the packed crowd of royal watchers.As first responders hoist the gurney, you can hear the British crowd say a collective “oop” as the soldier’s face hits the rear end of one of the medics as they hoist him up.Meanwhile, court jesters online giddily noted the humiliating moment, comparing the patient’s face to a credit card being swiped through a butt-cheek terminal. “Suddenly everything I’ve ever said and done isn’t so embarrassing anymore,” one gawker revealed on TikTok, as another declared that they “would have been instantly revived” by the nosy nudge.“The old Windsor kiss,” another quipped.In practice for the main event, the dress-rehearsal procession spanned eastward from Buckingham Palace to Trafalgar Square down The Mall, then took Downing Street around St.