Councillor Hamza Taouzzale took his mother to the service at Westminster Abbey
It is a prestigious position which saw him arrive at the abbey after world leaders including presidents Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron. Only UK prime ministers - former and current - and the Royal Family arrived after him.Mr Taouzzale was one of the few guests who were able to arrive at the funeral by carHis arrival time was precisely 10:12 BST."I knew this was something that was going to go down in history, something most of us haven't seen before and will not see again.
"And then to see them in person... they do exist outside of the textbooks I was studying, so it's an honour." "The most touching moment was towards the end with the Queen's piper and that's the part that hit me the most because we were all standing, we'd just sung the national anthem and it was almost the last farewell, a send off to the Queen.