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The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II is pulled past Buckingham Palace following her funeral service in Westminster Abbey in central London, Monday, Sept. 19, 2022. In June, Britain celebrated Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee — 70 years on the throne — with parties, pageants and a service of thanksgiving. Three months later, the queen died, aged 96, at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, Pool)

Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral cost U.K. government $200 million

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Shoppers pass a sale sign in a shop window on Oxford Street in London, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020. The British economy is on course to record the deepest coronavirus-related slump among the world's seven leading industrial economies after official figures showed it shrinking by a 20.4% in the second quarter of 2020 alone said The Office for National Statistics. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

UK public debt breaches 2 trillion-pound mark for first time

By PAN PYLAS - Associated Press

A customer receives a Gelish manicure at Lily's Nails &amp; Beauty on Clerkenwell Road in London, Monday, July 13, 2020. Nail bars, beauty salons, tattoo and massage studios, are among businesses able to reopen in the latest lifting of restrictions in England put in place to stem the spread of coronavirus. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

UK demands the public wear face coverings in shops

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press

Dominic Cummings, political adviser to Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, leaves 10 Downing Street in London, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019. An unrepentant Prime Minister Boris Johnson brushed off cries of &quot;Resign!&quot; and dared his foes to try to topple him Wednesday at a raucous session of Parliament, a day after Britain's highest court ruled he acted illegally in suspending the body ahead of the Brexit deadline. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

UK’s Boris Johnson defends his fraught Brexit language

By JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

British conservative lawmaker Anna Soubry, center, who campaigned to remain in the European Union during referendum debates, reacts with pro-Brexit protesters outside parliament in London, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019. Soubry was verbally confronted by Brexit campaigners on Monday outside parliament. Prime Minister Theresa May's proposed Brexit deal seems widely disliked by both pro-Europe and pro-Brexit politicians, threatening the exit agreement and future relations with EU. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Brexit sparks showdown between U.K. Parliament and government

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

FILE - This is a Thursday, May 4, 2017 file photo of Rupert Murdoch, right, Chairman of Fox News Channel, as he walks with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, left, to their table for dinner aboard the USS Intrepid, a decommissioned aircraft carrier docked in the Hudson River in New York. Britain’s Culture Secretary Karen Bradley is ruling on whether to permit the proposed 11.7 billion pound merge of Sky and Twenty-First Century Fox. Bradley is set to offer her verdict Thursday June 29, 2017. The merger would allow Rupert Murdoch to consolidate his power base in British media. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/File)

Murdoch takeover bid for Sky delayed for extra scrutiny

By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks on the third day of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

U.K. government loses Brexit case, must consult Parliament

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press

Islamic cleric Abu Qatada is driven out of Long Lartin high security prison in Worcestershire, England, after winning the latest round in his battle against deportation, Tuesday Nov. 13, 2012. British authorities say radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada has been freed from prison after a court ruled he cannot be deported from Britain to Jordan to face terrorism charges. (AP Photo/ Rui Vieira/PA)

Radical cleric Abu Qatada released from British jail

By David Stringer - Associated Press

** FILE ** TV host Jimmy Savile (right) poses for photographers with a wax model at Madame Tussauds museum in London in 1986. (AP Photo/John Redman)

U.K. government: BBC could face public inquiry over Savile scandal

By David Stringer - Associated Press

Crowds leave the Olympic Stadium at the Olympic Park in London on July 23, 2012, following the dress rehearsal for the opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympic Games. (Associated Press)

Britain deploys 1,200 more troops for Olympics

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press