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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Queen Elizabeth II's funeral cost UK government $200 million

PA

Queen Elizabeth II's funeral and lying-in-state last year cost Britain's government an estimated 162 million pounds (around $200 million), the treasury revealed Thursday.

The state funeral for the late monarch, held on Sept. 19, was the first in the U.K. since that of former Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1965.

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