She served with distinction on armour at the Household Cavalry Regiment and on state ceremonial duties at the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, including both Her Late Majesty The Queen’s funeral and His Majesty The King’s coronation. The Household Cavalry paid tribute to the ‘utterly dedicated officer’ who ‘worked tirelessly and always for the good of her soldiers’ in a statement released following her death. She embodied servant leadership and everything it is to be a Household Cavalry officer. As we grieve the loss of Lizzie, we kindly ask for privacy for her family and friends.’As Tatler remembers Captain Elizabeth Godwin, revisit this interview from the October 2023 issue which remains unedited. As she should: in 2020, Godwin became The Life Guards’ first female officer in the regiment’s prestigious history, after the Army’s decision in 2018 to allow women to engage in frontline combat operations.