Honoring the bequest of Queen Elizabeth II comes with a lofty terms tag.
 
The beingness of the longest-reigning monarch successful British history, who passed distant connected Sept. 8 astatine the property of 96, was marked with a ceremonial work astatine Westminster Abbey connected Sept. 19. The work was the archetypal authorities ceremonial the state has seen since that of Winston Churchill's successful January 1965. It was besides the archetypal held for a monarch since the decease of her father, King George VI, who passed distant successful 1952.
 
Although the British authorities has not yet confirmed the nonstop outgo of the authorities funeral, stating that details volition beryllium shared "in owed course," reports estimation that the full is expected to beryllium upwards of at least $7.5 million.
 
Per the New York Post, a ceremonial royal information serviceman predicted that would beryllium the outgo of the information for the ceremonial alone—not including the ceremonial events that led up to the occasion. In fact, according to London's Metropolitan Police, Queen Elizabeth's ceremonial is the azygous largest policing lawsuit that they person ever undertaken, surpassing the 2012 London Olympics and the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations that occurred earlier this year.

In total, 10,000 officers took portion successful the policing cognition for The Queen's service.

(For reference, the 2002 ceremonial for the precocious monarch's mother, Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, per the New York Times, was estimated to person outgo implicit $950,000 for the lying-in-state play and $5 cardinal for information successful total).

Most of the bottommost enactment for the full outgo of the Queen's funeral, per The Express, is expected to person been acceptable speech "over caller years, by some royalty and government." The worthy of the royal household is reported to basal astatine an estimated $28 billion, with astir of the royal family's yearly income and expenses paid done the nationalist Sovereign Grant, and the backstage Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster.