Gamekeepers from the royal Windsor estate mount a vigil around the coffin of the Queen Mother.
Solemnly, the four men, in traditional gamekeepers' uniforms of Windsor tweed, yesterday took up positions at each corner of the coffin.
Other estate workers and members of the Queen Mother's staff sat silently, in contemplation, in the wooden pews of the small country chapel in Windsor Great Park.
The Queen Mother's coffin is resting in the Royal Chapel of All Saints, close to Royal Lodge, her Windsor residence, where she died peacefully in her sleep on Saturday at the age of 101.
The Victorian Gothic chapel has been filled with flowers: white lilies line the stone walls and the coffin, draped to the floor in the Queen Mother's personal standard, is flanked by yellow orchids.
Light, filtered through a vivid stained-glass window, plays onto the coffin which is positioned before the altar.
Flowers, left by local people, fill the porch of the 19th Century chapel where the Queen Mother was a regular worshipper.
Gamekeepers Ian Watmore, Peter Clayton, Andrew Stubbs and head keeper John Stubbs stood vigil, and were later replaced by other estate workers.
Today, the coffin will be taken to the Queen's Chapel at St James's Palace, in central London.
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