Queen Elizabeth II's funeral: Who's invited and who's not
Hundreds of foreign royals and leaders are expected to attend the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in London on Monday in one of the biggest diplomatic gatherings in decades.
Westminster Abbey has space for around 2,000 people, so only heads of state and one or two guests have reportedly been invited to Britain's first state funeral for six decades.
A handful of countries have meanwhile not been invited to the funeral due to political considerations - sparking a furious outburst in at least one case.
Here are some of the key guests, and some who did not make the list:
World royalty:
- Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako.
- A host of royals from Europe and further afield have confirmed their attendance at the funeral of one of the world's longest-serving Dutch King Willem-Alexander, Queen Maxima and Crown Princess Beatrix, Philippe King of the Belgians, King Harald V of Norway and Prince Albert II of Monaco will all attend.
- Denmark's Queen Margrethe.
- Spain's King Felipe VI
Global leaders:
- US President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden.
- French President Emmanuel Macron.
- Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil are also coming.
Other heads of state at the funeral will include presidents Sergio Mattarella of Italy, Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany, Isaac Herzog of Israel, and Yoon Suk-yeol of Korea.
Leaders of realms and Commonwealth countries:
Numerous leaders will come from the countries that still counted Elizabeth II as their monarch and from members of the 56-nation Commonwealth.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, whose nations have the British sovereign as their head of state, are all set to come.
From the Commonwealth of mainly former British colonies will come leaders including South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, and Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama.
Not invited:
Russia and Belarus are among a small group of nations to be excluded from the queen's funeral following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, a British government source said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin - under a travel ban to the UK because of sanctions - had already said he would not attend.
But not inviting any Russian representative to the queen's funeral was "particularly blasphemous towards Elizabeth II's memory" and "deeply immoral", the foreign ministry in Moscow said on Thursday.
Military-run Myanmar, a former British colony, and long-time pariah North Korea have also been snubbed, the British source said on condition of anonymity.
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