Members of Royal Houses:
Several members of royal families from Europe, but also from more distant countries have confirmed their attendance. So come Japan’s Emperor Naruhito with his wife Masako. It is his first trip abroad since his accession to the throne in 2019. Naruhito also deviates from the Japanese tradition, according to which the emperor rarely attends funerals.
There are many family ties between European royal families and some of the royalty will be in London on Monday. the Danish Queen Margrethe, a third cousin of Elizabeth II, will come. The 82-year-old had canceled events for her own 50th anniversary of the throne because of the death of the Queen.
That Dutch royal couple Willem-Alexander and Máxima comes with Crown Princess Amalia, also the 85-year-old Norwegian King Harald Vthe Belgian King Philippe and Prince Albert II of Monaco have agreed. Besides that Spanish King Felipe VI. his father comes too Juan Carlos Iwho resigned in 2014 after a series of scandals and now lives in exile in the United Arab Emirates.
Heads of State and Government:
US President Joe Biden announced early on that he was coming to the funeral with his wife Jill. Unlike other heads of state, who have been asked to ride buses to Westminster Abbey with other guests, Biden is allowed to use his armored limousine known as “The Beast.”
Austria will through Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen represent, Germany through Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian President Sergio Mattarella are also on the guest list Ireland’s Prime Minister Michael MartinEU-Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and EU Council President Charles Michel. Also are Israeli President Isaac Herzog and his colleagues from Turkey, Brazil and South Korea, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Jair Bolsonaro and Yoon Suk Yeolincluded.
Out of China Head of State Xi Jinping is not coming, but his deputy Wang Qishan, as Beijing announced on Saturday. Earlier, the Speaker of the British House of Commons, Lindsay Hoyle, had banned an official Chinese delegation from entering the British Parliament’s Westminster Hall, where the Queen’s coffin was laid out. Hoyle was in turn responding to Chinese sanctions against British MPs in the dispute over human rights violations in the People’s Republic.
Representatives of the Commonwealth States:
Of course, numerous representatives of the 56 Commonwealth countries also take part. There are the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his colleagues Australia and New Zealand, Anthony Albanese and Jacinda Ardernwhose countries have the British monarch as head of state.
From the Commonwealth otherwise come about South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasinathe Sri Lankan leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Prime Minister of Fiji, Frank Bainimarama.
Not invited:
Russia and Belarus are among the few countries whose representatives were not invited to the Queen’s funeral service because of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. Moscow reacted angrily. Not inviting a Russian representative was “blasphemous against the memory of Elizabeth II.” and “deeply immoral,” the State Department said.
Into that ruled by a military junta Myanmar, once a British colony, no invitation was sent either, according to information from London. Even the internationally isolated one North Koreawhich was ruled by the radical Islamic Taliban Afghanistan such as Syria are not represented at the funeral service for Elizabeth II.
Source: Nachrichten
