{"id":668551,"date":"2026-01-02T08:13:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T08:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/668551\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T08:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T08:13:18","slug":"honour-for-transport-organiser-at-queen-elizabeth-iis-funeral-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/668551\/","title":{"rendered":"Honour for transport organiser at Queen Elizabeth II&#8217;s funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The woman who oversaw the operation to keep coach travel as smooth as possible during the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II has been recognised in the New Year Honours list.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fatima Benzbir from Horley, Surrey, is a senior transport manager for National Express and is based at Gatwick Airport, specialising in organising coaches for major events such as festivals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the funeral coach services that normally ran from Victoria were relocated to Wembley Stadium, an operation she led which her manager described as &#8220;one of the most significant and logistically demanding transport operations in recent history&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Benzbir has been awarded an MBE, something she said left her &#8220;thrilled and humbled&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The woman who oversaw the operation to keep coach travel as smooth as possible during the funeral of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-668551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115824505876591335","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}