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Meeting the newly elected leader of the Conservative Party and asking her to form a new government was Her Majesty's last royal engagement before she died

State funerals for a so-called ‘commoners’ need the assent of both parliament and monarch

Sir Winston Churchill and the Duke of Wellington are among those to have had state funerals

The Queen personally asked for the last state funeral to be held following the death of a Prime Minister, but not every leader got - or wanted - one

When Queen Elizabeth II’s grandfather King George V died in 1936 life in Britain is unrecognizable to people today

Lab-grown dairy products, touted as the environmentally friendly option, have the potential to become major disruptors

The death of a monarch happens so rarely that the arcane ceremony of burial must be explained to every generation

This remarkable week has shown how ritual unites and comforts us as we experienced the closing of a chapter in our national life, writes former BBC Royal Correspondent Jennie Bond

US President Joe Biden on Saturday headed to London to attend the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. The state funeral, the first in Britain since the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, will take place Monday at Westminster Abbey in London at 11:00 am (1000 GMT). Biden will be among…