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Full cost to nation of Queen's state funeral revealed by Treasury

The Treasury has revealed the full cost of the Queen's state funeral at £161 million. This afternoon it was announced that this sum was spent over the period from the Queen's death on September 8, which ended in the State Funeral on September 19

In a statement, Treasury Minister John Glen said: "The death of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 8 September 2022 and the period of national mourning that followed was a moment of huge national significance.

"During this period, many hundreds of thousands of people came in person to pay their respects, at the Lying at Rest in Edinburgh, the Lying-in-State in Westminster, as well as in London and Windsor for the State Funeral on 19 September.

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