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State Funerals

The list of United Kingdom state funerals.





Members of the Royal Family



  1. 1695 - Queen Mary II
  2. 1702 - King William II, King William III
  3. 1714 - Queen Anne
  4. 1760 - King George II
  5. 1820 - King George III






  6. 1830 - King George IV
  7. 1837 - King William IV
  8. 1901 - Queen Victoria
  9. 1910 - King Edward VII
  10. 1936 - King George V
  11. 1952 - King George VI
  12. 2022 - Queen Elizabeth II


State Funerals Outside the Royal Family



  1. 1657 - Admiral Robert Blake
  2. 1727 - Sir Isaac Newton
  3. 1806 - The Viscount Nelson
  4. 1852 - The Duke of Wellington
  5. 1865 - The Viscount Palmerston
  6. 1890 - Lord Napier of Magdala
  7. 1898 - William Ewart Gladstone
  8. 1914 - Earl Roberts of Kandahar
  9. 1919 - Edith Cavell
  10. 1928 - Earl Haig
  11. 1935 - Lord Carson
  12. 1965 - Sir Winston Churchill


Other funerals may share many of the characteristics of a state funeral but are actually termed as 'ceremonial funerals'. The funerals that fall into this category include Queen Mary (1953), Lord Louis Mountbatten (1979), Diana, Princess of Wales (1997), Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (2002), Margaret Thatcher (2013) and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (2021).



















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