Royal Navy staff including pregnant medic honoured by King Charles for key roles at Queen’s funeral procession

A PREGNANT medic is among Royal Navy ­personnel to receive an honour from the King.

About 150 were awarded Royal Victorian Order medals for aiding the Queen’s funeral.

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Medical Assistant ­Paisley Chambers-Smith helped pull the gun carriage carrying the coffin.

She wore a blue dress at the Windsor Castle ceremony yesterday as there is no Navy ceremonial maternity wear.

She said: “Charles asked when the baby was due.”

The medic works alongside civilian medical staff at an NHS hospital when not on deployment.

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Paisley said after the ceremony: “It’s not something I imagined doing so soon in my career.

“The training was so hard but worth it and on the day it was a massive honour to be there.”