Watching my husband guarding the late Queen’s coffin was a moment I’ll always cherish

msn.com:

standing guard at the foot of the late Queen’s coffin, one of four watchers playing their part in this long vigil, the chance for the nation to pay their respects to their late beloved monarch before she is laid to rest on Monday.

The rocking - forwards and backwards from the heel to the ball of the foot - keeps the blood flowing; stops him passing out.

Watch really carefully and they’re all at it. It is just after midnight and outside, the shuffling queue of hundreds of thousands of people is making its patient way along the Thames, over Lambeth Bridge and into Victoria Tower Gardens, to stream endlessly through Westminster Cathedral Hall.

Inside, under the bright lights hanging from the mediaeval beams, it is silent, bar the tapping of feet, the discreet click of an official photographer’s lens and once, the wail of a baby.