Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral cost over $200 million, UK government reveals
Britain’s King Charles III (L), Britain’s Camilla, Queen Consort, Britain’s Princess Anne, Princess Royal, Vice Admiral Timothy Laurence, Britain’s Prince Andrew, Duke of York, Britain’s Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, Britain’s Sophie, Countess of Wessex, Britain’s Prince William, Prince of Wales, Britain’s Prince George of Wales, Britain’s Catherine, Princess of Wales, Britain’s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex stroll behind the coffin of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II as they depart Westminster Abbey in London on September 19, 2022, after the State Funeral Service for Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II.
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LONDON — The state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II cost the U.Ok. government round £162 million ($201.4 million), the Treasury stated on Thursday.
The U.Ok.’s longest-serving monarch died on Sept. 8, 2022, aged 96, at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.
A ten-day interval of nationwide mourning, throughout which most companies and workplaces remained open however many occasions had been canceled, was held forward of her funeral in Westminster Abbey on Sept. 18.
An estimated 250,000 members of the general public noticed the British queen mendacity in state in London throughout the mourning interval, with many queuing within the streets of London for greater than 24 hours.
She was buried at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle, Berkshire.
The hearse carrying the coffin of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth is escorted alongside the Long Walk in the direction of Windsor fort within the funeral procession, on the day of the state funeral and burial of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, in Windsor, Britain, September 19, 2022
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According to the newly-released figures, the prices to U.Ok. government departments included £73.68 million to the Home Office, £57.42 million for the Department for Culture, Media & Sport, £2.565 million to the Department for Transport, £2.096 million for the Foreign Office, and £2.89 million for the Ministry of Defence.
The cost to the government in Scotland, the place a sluggish hearse procession and a one-day mendacity in state was held, was £18.756 million. The central U.Ok. Treasury stated this had been refunded.
The queen’s successor and son, King Charles III, was anointed and crowned on May 6 throughout a three-day weekend of coronation celebrations predicted to have cost between £50 million and £100 million.