Leaders and monarchs from around world to attend Queen’s state funeral

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Leaders and monarchs from around the world will attend the Queen's state funeral in London later this month, congregating in Westminster Abbey for a solemn gathering on a scale seldom witnessed in recent decades.

The funeral, which is expected to take place around 19 September in the same church where the Queen was crowned in 1953, will attract presidents, prime ministers, kings and queens as well as huge crowds from home and abroad.