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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Patrick Daly

Why Queen will be first monarch in 300 years to have Westminster Abbey funeral

Westminster Abbey is the historic church where British kings and queens have been crowned for a millennia.

But for the last third of those 1,000 years, it has not hosted a monarch’s funeral — until Monday.

The Queen's coffin is to be brought the short distance from Westminster Hall, where she has been lying in state since Wednesday, to Westminster Abbey on September 19 for her funeral service at 11am.

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