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Queen's funeral expected to cost taxpayer millions as households struggle with cost-of-living crisis
The hearse carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II departs St Giles' Cathedral, for Edinburgh Airport, where it will be flown by the Royal Air Force to RAF Northolt, then travel onward to Buckingham Palace, London, where it will lie at rest. Picture date: Tuesday September 13, 2022.
THE mega-policing operation surrounding the Queen’s funeral is likely to cost the taxpayer millions of pounds at a time when Brits are struggling with the cost-of-living crisis.
Security surrounding the events in the wake of the Queen’s death has been reported as the Metropolitan Police’s biggest ever policing operation.
Experts have said that about 10,000 officers will be on duty per day in the English capital alone in the run-up to the Queen’s funeral.
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