Royal mourner John held his spot ahead of the Queen’s funeral procession in London for 12 days – since her Majesty died.
“I bowed and I took my hat off, laid it on the ground and I knew she was going home,” he told Today.
“I’d never see her coffin again and I realised Her Majesty was going home with her loving husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, her rock, and she will be laid to rest in St George’s Chapel and we shall miss her always.”
He had camped for 11 nights to secure his position.
Up to two million people packed the streets for a final farewell in London.
The crowds are beginning to thin out now, but there are plenty who have stayed behind.
