Queen's state funeral: officials took tips from Queen Victoria service for 'biggest ever' event

A core team of 100 civil servants has been working through the night on Operation London Bridge since Queen Elizabeth II died a week ago

September 16, 2022 10:00 pm

Government officials delved into the archives of Queen Victoria’s funeral to help plan the state occasion forA team of around 100 civil servants in the Cabinet Office is working on, with thousands more in supporting roles, to ensure this week’s lying-in-state and Monday’s state funeral go to plan. A smaller core of the “Bridges” team has been working on the operation for years, including some who have now retired but returned to Whitehall last week to help see the plans implemented., the operations centre has been running 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with civil servants working shift patterns to implement the decades-long planning.

Some 500 kings, queens, emperors and other foreign dignitaries are expected to attend the Queen’s state funeral. Besides the 100 central planning team, a further 150 civil servants from other government departments are working on Operation London Bridge. Another 300 civil servants have volunteered to be marshals along the queue for the Queen’s lying-in-state, offering “wayfaring and boxes of tissues”, a source said.has also been supported by 140 British Red Cross volunteers, 120 Scouts and 600 collectively from the Salvation Army, Samaritans and St John’s Ambulance.

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