At An Estimated Cost Of $7.5 Million, Queen Elizabeth II¡¯s Funeral Was UK's Most Expensive Single-day Event
According to a former royal security officer, the security arrangements for Queen Elizabeth II¡¯s funeral, are estimated to have costed more than $7.5 million. However, no official figure has been disclosed.
Queen Elizabeth II¡¯s funeral yesterday brought an end to the public mourning for Britain¡¯s longest-reigning monarch. Her coffin was lowered into the Royal Vault of St George's, where the Queen's parents, husband Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and sister Princess Margaret were also buried earlier.
The Queen was laid to rest on Monday night together with the Duke of Edinburgh at a private family service in the King George VI Memorial Chapel, located inside St George's Chapel, a statement on the Royal Family's official website said, as per a BBC report.
And according to a former royal security officer, the security arrangements for Queen Elizabeth II¡¯s funeral, are estimated to have cost more than $7.5 million. This makes her funeral the most expensive single-day event in UK history. However, no official figure has been disclosed.
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As per a report in the New York Post, the British Mi5 and Mi6 intelligence agencies and London¡¯s Metropolitan Police collaborated with the Secret Service and intelligence bureaus from around the globe to protect an unprecedented number of world leaders who had flown in to pay their last respects to Queen Elizabeth II.
¡°This is the biggest policing operation that the United Kingdom policing has ever undertaken,¡± said Simon Morgan, who spent years protecting the British royal family ¡ª even eclipsing the work done to secure the Olympics.
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Before this, the police costs for the 2011 wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton were reportedly an estimated $7.2 million.
Royal protection was also bolstered for Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan, who had reportedly lost their right to taxpayer-funded security when they quit their royal duties and were stripped of their HRH titles.
When the exiled couple came to England earlier this month with their private security team, ¡°there was no knowledge that the Queen was going to pass away,¡± Morgan said. ¡°Now they find themselves within a larger protection operation, with other senior members of the family who are afforded police protection, getting it almost by default.¡±
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