I don't think it’ll ever...
for myself.
I don't think it’ll ever fully sink in.
I'll always know that I carried
Her Majesty the Queen when she died.
But it's so I've said to
several people when the day you test and the day that I pass Phase two
training, the day that I passed training flight on the Queen's Flight Squadron,
I never thought I'd be selected
to carry The Queen when she died.
And I think that's that's the thing that will make it so surreal
forever, because it's one that things were like nah,
you’ll not carry The Queen it’ll be someone else and that's what everybody says,
and I was that someone else that I wanted to do it.
And I said, now it'll
obviously live forever
by and
with me, with my children and with the RAF.
If I’m honest I think we executed it perfectly.
I think it just goes to show you how well your training
sets you up for success.
Yeah, we, you know, we, we train so often
that it was just a case of doing it in front of a larger crowd.
So for us, it was just, you know,
just doing our doing our job,
We were called the A-Team at one point, so
there's other lads who, as I said, and you know, they've been there longer,
they've been there longer than some of the other people with us are the bearers.
And you know, you get the odd “Are we allowed to sit and talk to you?” or
“Are we allowed to sit and have lunch with you?”
You know, we're not good enough for you kind of thing, but you just
it's all in jest.
It's all it's all good fun.
And I think they're just
everyone's happy that we did as good a job as we could have done.
And they and they know that they couldn’t have done a better job.
It just would have been their face instead of ours
I haven’t actually had time to sit down and still think about it.
And I still haven't, um, I haven't spoke to my parents about it really.
I mean, they were immensely proud, sure,
But not to echo myself, but like I say, it's just another job.
And that's not in a horrible, disrespectful way.
It's just. Just the way you train.
I’ll never forget when she drove past on the pan
and that's when it sort of sunk in about what I was doing.
Um, but not to echo or reiterate myself,
The professional side really does kick in.
And then I just remember marching over,
forming up, taking her out the hearse,
and then the rest is kind of
I just just a blur because it all happened so fast.
It's still pretty surreal.
So even my mood doing the job, it was really weird.
The pressure never really hit me because I think it was just so big.
It didn't like,
the pressure wasn’t there because it had to be done.
There was no room for mistake.
But then even I've still got some photos printed up,
printed off and put up on my wall.
And then every now and again I'll look at them and be like, Oh yeah, we did that.
But you have to remind yourself how big, big of an occasion
that was and to be a part of it.