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Jasmine Allday & Paul T Smith

Rod Stewart's wife Penny Lancaster to work as Special Constable at Queen's funeral

Penny Lancaster has revealed she will be working as a Special Constable at the Queen's funeral next week and says she is "very proud" do to so.

Her Majesty will be laid to rest in a state funeral at Westminster Abbey at 11am on Monday, September 19.

The model - who is married to Rod Stewart - became a special constable last year and will be working alongside her colleagues across the rest of this week and early next week to support the police efforts.

Penny spoke of her love for the Royal Family, including King Charles III, who she worked alongside closely with The Prince's Trust charity. She also recalled dancing with the then Prince and her husband.

During an extended edition of Good Morning Britain today, she said: "It was a great privilege to work at the Queen's memorial service at St. Paul's Cathedral on Friday. I signed the oath of Office of Constable to Her Majesty the Queen just over a year ago, April last year, and just as the seamless tie between Her Majesty and King Charles III, my oath will now be with the King."

Adding of her own role in the proceedings, she shared: "I have extreme pride to serve on the streets of London on Friday and I will be again on Wednesday when the Queen's cortege and on Monday, which is a historic moment I'll be very proud to be at."

Penny had previously explained what her role as a special constable entailed.

"We look after the bridges. I think a lot of people because of the pandemic have been thinking of taking their life, sadly," she said. "At one point, it was every day there was someone that was jumping.

"A lot of the tasks we were given was to man the bridges. We would be walking up and down the bridges."

She also said Rod backed her job completely, and she wanted to be a good role model for her kids, Alastair and Aiden.

"I want to show my boys that it’s important to be whatever you want to be in life, and fulfil every part of yourself, even if it’s considered dangerous," she added of her children, "At the end of the day, the police are the public and the public are the police. We’ve got the training and the powers to do our job and to protect life."

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