Rod Stewart’s wife, Penny Lancaster, on policing Queen Elizabeth’s funeral: ‘Biggest honor of all'

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Penny Lancaster had "great training and preparation" to be part of the police detail on Monday for Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral. "With all that planning going ahead, you can never quite predict how the crowd is [going to] react and the dangers that might lay ahead," the British model and TV personality, who is married to Rod Stewart, told Sky News. "But we’ve had great training and preparation and fortunately, everybody paid their respects in the proper manner, and we didn’t have any incidents to speak of," the 51-year-old shared. "So I’m very grateful for that." Lancaster began volunteering for the force after appearing in the reality TV show "Famous and Fighting Crime," where celebrities swap their day jobs with those of emergency service professionals.

An inspired Lancaster went on to become a special police constable for the City of London Police in April 2021. Penny Lancaster is a special constable with the City of London Police. (Shutterstock) Lancaster joined an estimated 15,000 officers on the streets for the funeral, which took place at Westminster Abbey.

Lancaster was spotted in full uniform while thousands took to the streets and paid their respects to Britain’s longest-serving monarch.

Elizabeth passed away on Sept. 8 at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. She was 96. "This is the biggest honor of all, to be able to serve today on Her Majesty the Queen’s funeral," Lancaster told PA News Agency. "We were in uniform by five o’clock this morning, and we didn’t know what time we will be working until.