A guard has fainted while keeping watch over Queen Elizabeth II's coffin at Westminster Hall in London in front of a long queue of people paying their respects to her.
Video footage shows the guard swaying before falling face-first off the catafalque, which is a slightly raised platform on which the coffin is placed.
Two police officers rushed to the guard's aid and a change of guards occurred not long after.
A rotation of royal bodyguards and other royal military units, including the Household Cavalry, the Grenadier Guards and the Coldstream Guards, are keeping a 24-hour vigil around Her Majesty's coffin.
On Thursday morning (NZ time), Queen Elizabeth's coffin was carried in procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall.
King Charles and his sons, Prince William and Harry, walked behind the Queen's coffin as it travelled from Buckingham Palace to the hall.
Hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets to catch a glimpse of the coffin before Her Majesty was left to lie in state, giving the public a chance to pay their respects for the next few days.
