How Much Did Queen Elizabeth II's Funeral Cost & Who Will Pay For It ?

How Much Did Queen Elizabeth II's Funeral Cost & Who Will Pay For It ? Queen Elizabeth Funeral: The state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, which began on September 8 after the death of the Queen, ended on September 19 at London's Westminster Abbey. Take a look at this video to know about the details of the cost for the Queen's funeral & who will bear it all.Queen Elizabeth’s 11-day funeral was super expensive. Many top leaders from all over the globe visited the event to pay their last tributes to the Queen, it is needless to say that the lady’s funeral event was not an ordinary one.
Several questions arise surrounding the issue. Firstly, how much was the money spent on the funeral? Secondly, who paid for the money? Did the royal family take the complete expense on its shoulder or is the expense partly funded by the taxpayers?
Earlier, the royal historian said that the funeral event would define the nation. He further stated that “no cost should be spared”.
World leaders from all over the globe had been invited to the funeral event on September 19, and thus, the costs to run into millions should not be a surprising number.
As per a royal security officer, the funeral’s security arrangements cost more than $7.5 million. This huge amount makes the Queen’s funeral the most-expensive single-day event in United Kingdom history.
However, the world is still waiting for an official figure to be disclosed.
According to some reports, the London Metropolitan Police and the British Mi5 and Mi6 intelligence agencies joined hands with the Secret Service and intelligence bureaus from all over the world to safeguard a huge number of world leaders who had visited to pay their last tributes to the longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.
Simon Morgan, who devoted many years to the service to protect the British royal family, expressed, that “this is the biggest policing operation that the United Kingdom policing has ever undertaken,”.
The huge expense on royal events is not an uncommon event, especially in the British royal family. For instance, the police costs when Prince Willam and Catherine Middleton tied knots in 2011, were reportedly around $7.2- million.