Rod Stewart’s Wife Penny Lancaster Is ‘Very Grateful’ for Peace While Policing Queen Elizabeth II’s Funeral: ‘You Can Never Predict the Crowd’
usmagazine.comDoing her duty! Rod Stewart’s wife, Penny Lancaster, served as a member of the city of London police during Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral on Monday, September 19 — and she’s very thankful things went smoothly.“With all that planning going ahead, you can never quite predict how the crowd is [going to] react and the dangers that might lay ahead,” Lancaster, 51, told Sky News following the service. “But we’ve had great training and preparation, and fortunately, everybody paid their respects in the proper manner and we didn’t have any incidents to speak of.
So, I’m very grateful for that.”The model revealed that Operation London Bridge — the official funeral plan for the late monarch — “went into action immediately” following her death on September 8 at the age of 96.
The schedule, which includes the announcement of her death, the period of official mourning and the details of her state funeral, was created in the 1960s and revised various times before Her Majesty’s passing earlier this month.The England native, who is a special constable for the London police since completing her training last year, shared that she is “very proud to be able to serve” during such a “historic moment” during an interview with Good Morning Britain last week.“It was a great privilege to work at the Queen’s memorial service at St.
Paul’s Cathedral on [September 9],” she said at the time. “I signed the oath of Office of Constable to Her Majesty the Queen just over a year ago, April last year, and just as the seamless tie between Her Majesty and King Charles III, my oath will now be with the King.”She added, “It’s always an honor and a pleasure and they’re just a family like all other families, but they have this huge responsibility to be the head
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