The pallbearers who faultlessly carried the Queen's coffin during Monday's state funeral at Westminster Abbey and committal service at Windsor have been identified. The eight have been praised for carrying the 500lb lead-lined coffin on the Queen's final journey as billions of people around the world watched.
They have been named by MailOnline as eight soldiers from the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, and were flown back from operational service in Iraq to take part in the funeral.
The British Army has said that the eight men chosen were the 'very best soldiers' in the Company – and also that they were the eight tallest men in the Company, chosen for stature and consistent stability, and likely arranged shortest to tallest at the back.
