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Did Queen Mother have a state funeral?

Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral will take place on Monday 19 September

The Independent UK · Sep 11, 2022

Newcastle United's Kings of Wembley came face to face with the real royalty

The Magpies were presented with the FA Cup by two different monarchs and a legendary Prime Minister in the 1950s

Chronicle Live · Sep 11, 2022

Winston Churchill had last state funeral for non-royal

State funerals for a so-called ‘commoners’ need the assent of both parliament and monarch

The Independent UK · Sep 11, 2022

Lend me your ears! The art of political speechwriting

The politicians deliver the words but who writes them? We talk to the experts whose job is to come up with the memorable phrases

The Guardian - UK · Sep 11, 2022

The remarkable reign of the platinum queen was almost too perfect

By being such a constant source of comfort and object of pride, she masked Britain’s relative decline

The Guardian - UK · Sep 11, 2022

What is a state funeral and who has had one in the UK?

Sir Winston Churchill and the Duke of Wellington are among those to have had state funerals

The Independent UK · Sep 11, 2022

Queen seamlessly modernised Royal Family after taking over institution dominated by men

Andrew Morton, the author of Diana: Her True Story, says that by caring more for people than protocol, Queen Elizabeth II rewrote the stuffy old rules of The Firm

Daily Mirror · Sep 10, 2022

Secret of the Queen’s soft power – across seven decades and 15 prime ministers

Elizabeth II got on well with PMs of widely differing politics and backgrounds and played a key role in the background of British politics

The Guardian - UK · Sep 10, 2022

What is a state funeral and who has had one in the UK?

Sir Winston Churchill and the Duke of Wellington are among those to have had state funerals

The Independent UK · Sep 10, 2022

From the archive: Robert Harris on the Queen and Mrs Thatcher, 1988

The monarch got on well with most of her premiers so why did she clash with her longest-serving prime minister, asked the Observer’s political editor in 1988

The Guardian - UK · Sep 10, 2022