The Queen’s state funeral will take place on Monday, September 19 following her death on Thursday, September 8. The day will be a bank holiday, with businesses across the country closing for the day or opening later to allow staff to pay their respects or watch the service.
Two thousand people including world leaders and foreign royals will gather inside Westminster Abbey for the final farewell to the nation’s longest reigning monarch. Some 800 people, including members of the Queen’s Household and Windsor estate staff, will attend the committal service afterwards in St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle.
The Palace confirmed the Queen will be interred with the Duke of Edinburgh in the King George VI Memorial Chapel in St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, in a private service on Monday. But the burial service conducted by the Dean of Windsor and attended by the King and royals will remain entirely private, as a “deeply personal family occasion”.
