Guard faints while standing watch beside Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin in Westminster Hall

A guard fainted and fell headfirst to the floor late Wednesday as mourners paid respects to Queen Elizabeth II as she lies in state at Westminster Hall.

The guard stumbled from his position where the Queen’s coffin sat in the now-viral video.

Two men rushed over to help him up.

The Daily Mail reported the BBC, which was live-streaming the ceremony, cut out its feed as police and others responded.

The Queen’s casket is guarded around the clock by service members from the Sovereign’s Bodyguard, the Household Division, or Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London, according to the paper.

The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II left Buckingham Palace for the last time Wednesday, borne on a horse-drawn carriage and saluted by cannons and the tolling of Big Ben, in a solemn procession through the flag-draped, crowd-lined streets of London to Westminster Hall. There, a steady stream of mourners paid their respects to Britain’s longest-reigning monarch.

As the cortege left the palace, her son, King Charles III, and his siblings and sons marched behind the coffin, which was topped by a wreath of white roses and her crown resting on a purple velvet pillow.

The military procession underscored Elizabeth’s seven decades as head of state as the national mourning process shifted to the grand boulevards and historic landmarks of the U.K. capital.

At 900-year-old Westminster Hall, where the queen will lie in state until her funeral Monday, crowds shuffled past her coffin well into the night. They moved silently down the steps of the hall under a great stained glass window, then past the coffin that was covered with the Royal Standard and had been placed on a raised platform known as a catafalque by eight pallbearers.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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