Tag: State Funeral

A Quarter of a Million People Filed Past Queen’s Coffin in London to Pay Last Respects

September 20, 2022
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Around a quarter of a million people paid their respects in person to Queen Elizabeth II by viewing her coffin as it lay in state in London, UK Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan has revealed. During the late monarch’s four-day lying-in-state, which ended on Sunday, around 250,000 people went through Westminster Hall to pay their last…

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Japanese Government Approves State Funeral Date for Slain Former Prime Minister Abe

July 23, 2022
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TOKYO—The Japanese government said on Friday it would hold a state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sept. 27. Abe, prime minister for more than eight years over two terms and hugely influential in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) even after leaving office, was gunned down two weeks ago at a campaign…

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