Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral will be Britain's first for more than half a century

The last state funeral in Britain was Winston Churchill’s in 1965.

The gun carriage carrying the coffin of Sir Winston Churchill crossing London’s Trafalgar Square (PA)

Queen Elizabeth II's funeral will, according to tradition, be a state funeral, a rare honour mostly reserved for the British sovereign.

The only British monarch not to be given a state funeral in the last 295 years was Edward VIII, who abdicated.