The Queen’s funeral will be the “largest international event” the UK has held in decades, Government sources believe. Around 500 dignitaries from around the world are expected to attend the late monarch’s state funeral on Monday.
There are more than 100 civil servants working shifts on the central operational team handling events related to the Queen’s death, with the efforts headed up by the permanent secretary at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.“There are people that otherwise might have moved on in their roles that have stayed in their roles because of the privilege that it is to support the planning for this.
“There were quite a lot of people who worked on this in previous roles, who the moment that we heard the news immediately volunteered to come back.” The state funeral is likely to attract one of the largest UK television audiences of recent decades and will be the largest security operation in theWorld leaders will join members of the royal family, UK prime ministers past and present and key figures from public life for the occasion at Westminster Abbey – which can hold about 2,000 people – at 11am on Monday.
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