World leaders including Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron and Justin Trudeau will be joined at the Queen's funeral by Europe's royals, Japan's emperor and a cast of controversial statesmen including Jair Bolsonaro and Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Leaders who have already confirmed their attendance among the 2,000- strong list of VIPs include the prime ministers of Canada, Australia and New Zealand, leaders of Germany, France and Italy as well as the heads of state of Japan and South Korea.
But there will be no places for Vladimir Putin or his ally Belarusian leader Aleksandr Lukashenko and Min Aung Hlaing of Myanmar. It is not thought Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy will be able to take time out of the Russian war fly to London and China's President Xi and India's Narendra Modi are yet to confirm.