Critics say the extravagance is inappropriate when people are struggling with the cost of living crisis
The events to mark the death ofA 10-day period of national mourning, culminating in the monarch’s funeral, was announced after her death on 8 September last year. About 250,000 people attended the lying in state, while official audience data showed that more than 29 million people in the UK watched the funeral on television.
“There is an assumption that these things have to be done on this scale and that’s an assumption that needs to be questioned – particularly in the middle of a cost of living crisis,” said the chief executive of Republic, Graham Smith.
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