Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral charge more than $200 million, Uk government reveals

Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral charge more than 0 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 walk behind the coffin of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II as they depart Westminster Abbey in London on September 19, 2022, soon after the Condition Funeral Support for Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II.

Ben Stansall | Afp | Getty Photographs

LONDON — The point out funeral of Queen Elizabeth II expense the U.K. government around £162 million ($201.4 million), the Treasury reported on Thursday.

The U.K.’s longest-serving monarch died on Sept. 8, 2022, aged 96, at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.

A 10-day period of time of countrywide mourning, for the duration of which most corporations and workplaces remained open but several activities ended up canceled, was held in advance of her funeral in Westminster Abbey on Sept. 18.

An approximated 250,000 associates of the public saw the British queen lying in point out in London all through the mourning period of time, with many queuing in the streets of London for far more than 24 several 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 along the Prolonged Stroll in direction of Windsor castle in 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 freshly-introduced figures, the charges to U.K. government departments involved £73.68 million to the Dwelling Office, £57.42 million for the Section for Tradition, Media & Sport, £2.565 million to the Department for Transportation, £2.096 million for the Overseas Workplace, and £2.89 million for the Ministry of Defence.

The price tag to the government in Scotland, exactly where a sluggish hearse procession and a a single-working day lying in state was held, was £18.756 million. The central U.K. Treasury stated this had been refunded.

The queen’s successor and son, King Charles III, was anointed and crowned on May well 6 during a a few-working day weekend of coronation celebrations predicted to have cost involving £50 million and £100 million.



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