Nearly 200 key workers and volunteers who were recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours in June have been invited to the Queen's state funeral on Monday, Downing Street has announced.
The people, who were the last group to receive honours from the Queen before her death last week, will take their seats among key members of the Royal family and leaders from all over the world in Westminster Abbey on Monday. The full guest list for the funeral, which will start at 11am, has not been released by Buckingham Palace yet, but hundreds of dignitaries from around the world are expected to travel to London to pay their last respects to the Queen in what is set to be one of the biggest logistical and diplomatic events in the UK in decades, reports Walesonline.
Westminster Abbey, which can hold around 2,000 people is where the Q ueen married Prince Philip in 1947, and where she was crowned in 1953. Monday’s ceremony will be the first monarch’s funeral to take place at Westminster Abbey since the 18th century. The funeral of King George VI, Elizabeth’s father, took place at the royal residence of Sandringham House.
