While watching over Queen Elizabeth II's coffin, a guard reportedly fainted and fell.
A video circulating online shows the uniformed guard stumbling to his right twice before regaining his balance.
Shortly after, the guard fell from the red podium onto the floor, and several officials and police officers rushed to his aid.
The late Queen's lying in state is expected to be opened to the public at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, with hundreds of thousands of people expected to file past to pay their respects until September 19, the day of the funeral.
The Sovereign's Bodyguard, the Household Division, and the Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London are always on duty to protect the Queen's coffin.
Before the state funeral at Westminster Abbey on Monday (September 19), the country's longest-reigning monarch, who died on September 8 at the age of 96 after 70 years in power, is laid to rest in the capital's Westminster Hall.
After more than 48 hours of waiting outside in all weather conditions, the coffin was taken out of Buckingham Palace for the final time on Wednesday in front of tens of thousands of people.
The first full day of Queen Elizabeth II's lying-in-state will be Thursday, giving people one more chance to say their final goodbyes to the beloved monarch.
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