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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

By the Numbers: Facts and Figures about the Queen’s Funeral

Royal Guards march outside Horse Guard grounds ahead of the State Funeral Service of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, in London, Britain, September 19, 2022. (AP)

Events surrounding Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral on Monday cap 10 days of national mourning and are expected to be watched by hundreds of thousands of people packed onto the streets of London and millions around the world. Those are just a few of the staggering array of numbers generated by the death of the 96-year-old monarch after a 70-year-reign.

Here are some figures that have swirled around London and the rest of the United Kingdom in the aftermath of death on Sept. 8 at her summer retreat in Scotland of the only monarch most Britons have ever known.

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