Queen Elizabeth II's favourite pony Emma stood alone on the side of the Long Walk as she bid her final farewell on Monday, 19 September.
Her late Majesty's coffin made its way from Westminster Abbey to Windsor Castle in a procession, which saw King Charles III, 73, lead the Royal Family behind.
The Queen's Fell pony Emma, a stunning small black horse, could be seen awaiting the cortege, alongside a member of the royal staff.
According to the late sovereign's head groom Terry Pendry, Emma was one of her favourites. Back in 2020, Pendry told Town & Country magazine that the horse "has been a wonderful servant to Her Majesty and is still going strong at the age of 24 as one of The Queen’s riding ponies.”
According to royal author Claudia Joseph, Princess Anne, 75, and her daughter Zara Tindall, 41, are expected to make the decision on what happens next to the Queen's beloved horses.
Speaking to the New York Post, she said: “It is likely that the queen’s daughter, Princess Anne, and [Anne’s] daughter, Zara, who were both Olympic equestrians and well-known horse lovers, are likely to be involved in what happens next to the queen’s animals."
Emma wasn't the only animal waiting for the cortege to go past on afternoon of the Queen's funeral though as her two corgis Muick and Sandy could be seen standing alongside two members of staff on the Long Walk, too.
Andrew, the Duke of York, 62, and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, also 62, will now look after the Queen’s beloved corgis following her death.
Guests, including members of the Royal Family, took their places in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle ahead of the late monarch's arrival.
Many of the Queen's great-grandchildren were also already there for the committal service, including 44 year old Peter Phillips’s daughters Savannah, 11, and Isla, 10, and Zara and 43 year old Mike Tindall’s daughter Lena, four.
This evening in Windsor, there will be a private interment service with senior members of the Royal Family, where the Queen will be reunited with her husband the Duke of Edinburgh.
The Queen’s final resting place will be the King George VI memorial chapel, an annex to the main chapel, where her mother and father were buried, along with the ashes of her sister, Princess Margaret.
Philip’s coffin will move from the royal vault to the memorial chapel to join the Queen’s in a burial chamber 16 feet underground.
Her late Majesty's burial marks her reunion with her "strength and stay" Prince Philip, who passed away at the age of 99 on 9 April 2021.
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