Today, during the Queen’s funeral, a Gurkha, a police officer, and a member of the palace’s household staff all fell while on duty.
This morning, the officer was photographed on the ground in downtown London, surrounded by police colleagues and Royal Navy officers.
The man was subsequently transported away on a stretcher.
In a second incident, a Gurkha regiment soldier on Horse Guards Road looked to be sick during the ceremony.
The man fainted and two soldiers gave him a stretcher, but after drinking a bottle of water he was able to continue.
As he finished drinking and the stretcher was removed, the crowd applauded.
During the parade through the heart of the capital, a member of the Buckingham Palace staff was also spotted on the ground.
Paramedics were seen treating a female guard who fainted near Cambridge Gate in Windsor.
It occurred just days after a guard fainted while standing watch at the Palace of Westminster next to the Queen’s coffin.
During today’s Queen’s funeral, a police officer was carried away on a stretcher after falling while on duty.
Following this morning’s incident, the officer was photographed laying on the ground and being attended to by colleagues.
During the parade through the heart of the capital, a member of the Buckingham Palace staff was spotted on the ground.
Paramedics were seen treating a female guard who fainted near Cambridge Gate in Windsor.
Those who had waited for hours to pay their respects to the king were shocked when a guard began to stagger on his feet just before collapsing.
Moments before, the man had briefly left the podium before returning when other servicemen joined him for a changeover.
Moments later, though, he blacked out and slid forward, falling on the stone floor amid loud gasps from onlookers in line to pay their respects.
As police went to the man’s rescue, the livestream was interrupted for many minutes.
At least 10,000 police officers and 1,500 soldiers have formed a six-mile-wide ring of steel around central London for today’s burial service, which has been called the “largest security operation in British history.”
Many highways and bridges have been closed to traffic, 23 miles of barriers have been erected to contain crowds and secure important sites, and police with sniffer dogs are on duty to check the identities of anyone passing through.
Specialized weapons cops have been deployed around Westminster Abbey, while spotters with binoculars have taken up positions on the rooftops of government buildings.
An outside perimeter of concrete blocks was erected by the police at 6 a.m., barring all roads up to 500 yards away from the Royal Hospital Chelsea, which is surrounded by heightened security.
Two rows of bollards and a line of modular anti-terror barricades capable of halting a truck carrying a bomb were placed across the route.
This morning, there was a small embarrassment when the official state car representing Qatar was delayed at the roadblock for more than thirty minutes due to an apparent mix-up.
This evening, as the guard fell down onto the stone floor, police officers rushed to his rescue.
Two police officers raced to the man’s aid while the remaining guards remained to stand watch by the casket.
Meanwhile, police spotters surveyed the throng from temporary towers erected along the Long Walk near Windsor Castle.
The Metropolitan’s DAC Stuart Cundy, the man in command of the operation in the city, stated that the police would employ ‘all possible tools and methods’ to secure the Queen’s coffin, the Royal Family, hundreds of VIPs and international leaders, and the one million mourners who were scheduled to travel to the capital.
The senior officer told reporters that the ‘hugely complicated’ policing operation is the largest in the force’s history, surpassing the London 2012 Olympics, where up to 10,000 police officers were on duty each day.