His horse, Cassius, will be retiring after the parade after 12 years’ service, including Margaret Thatcher’s funeral, and has been kept on for his experience. Any of our normal parades it’s a natural horse walking pace, which is a bit more forward-going than human pace, so we’re asking them to half that again,” said Sgt Tom Jenks, 30, who is riding the lead horse in front of the gun carriage that will be pulling the coffin. “It’s quite a tall order to ask them to walk at a slow march pace. The procession will have a slow and sombre pace, with drummers beating 75 beats a minute – something that is proving a particular challenge for the horses. The procession will travel via Queen’s Gardens, the Mall, Horse Guards and Horse Guards Arch, Whitehall, Parliament Street, Parliament Square and New Palace Yard. The coffin will leave Buckingham Palace at 2.22pm and arrive at Westminster Hall at 3pm. The King will lead a procession behind the late Queen’s coffin. This will be followed by another rehearsal on Thursday morning for the funeral’s 4,500-strong military parade. Early on Tuesday morning, a full rehearsal of the military procession took place around Westminster along streets closed to traffic, with soldiers marching in full uniform to the sound of funeral marches by classical composers such as Mendelssohn, Beethoven and Chopin.
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