A mum has told how she had no idea that her son would be carrying the Queen's coffin at her funeral and that she is "beyond proud" after first seeing him in photos during the rehearsals.
David Sanderson, 19, from Morpeth in Northumberland, was selected to be one of the eight soldiers from the Queen’s Company 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards, who bore the oak casket in both London and Windsor, reported ChronicleLive.
Millions of people around the world watched images of the funeral at Westminster Abbey last Monday and there was a particular emotion for David's family when they saw the coffin draped in the Royal Standard being brought into the church.
