The King has introduced honours to Royal Navy sailors who performed a symbolic position in his mom’s funeral procession, certainly one of whom is closely pregnant.
During an open-air ceremony at Windsor Castle, the monarch honoured about 150 sailors and officers who both took half in Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral final September or helped to plan it.
Medical assistant Paisley Chambers-Smith, who’s seven months pregnant, was awarded an RVO (Royal Victorian Order) silver medal for pulling the gun carriage carrying the Queen’s coffin with nearly 100 different sailors.
On a heat sunny day in Windsor she was carrying a blue summer time gown as a result of the Royal Navy doesn’t have any ceremonial maternity put on.
The medic, who works alongside civilian workers at an NHS hospital when not on deployment, mentioned after the ceremony: “It’s not one thing I imagined doing so quickly in my profession.
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“The training was so hard but worth it and on the day it was a massive honour to be there.”
The King weaved between these gathered within the fort’s quadrangle, whereas music was supplied by the Royal Marines Band Service.
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