500 personalities will attend, including kings, presidents and prime ministers. Argentina sends only its ambassador to London.
More of five hundred guests They will attend Queen Elizabeth’s state funeral next Monday. Kings, presidents, prime ministers will arrive especially, trying not to overlap their trip with the current security measures and the start of the United Nations Assembly in New York.
Emperor Naruhito of Japan will come and will be accompanied by the Empress Masakoin the first major international appearance after disappear for 20 years from the publicto be treated for deep depression.
Naruhito y Masako studied at oxford university and both feel an enormous respect for the sovereign. It will be the first foreign trip since Naruhito succeeded his father Emperor Akihito to the throne in 2019.
US President Joe Biden will arrive with his wife Jill and will be the only one allowed to bring his famous limousine The Beast y su custodia.
The other heads of state will arrive at Westminster Abbey en buses for security reasons. Only the head of state and a guest have been invited.
Britain invited a representative from North Korea because the communist regime has an open embassy in London, and it will be present.
Syria, Russia and Venezuela, no
Syria and Venezuela were not invited because the kingdom does not maintain diplomatic relations with them.
Russia, Myanmar and Belarus They weren’t invited either.
Afghanistan is added to that list because of the political situation. The Afghan embassy in London is occupied by former Taliban diplomats.
Argentina
Thursday was the deadline to confirm attendance. Argentina will not send anything other than his ambassador in London.
An Argentine diplomatic source explained that “attending the funeral is a great political cost for Argentina”, without remembering that the reconciliation with Great Britain was initiated by President Raúl Alfonsín, continued by Carlos Menem, Eduardo Duhalde and Fernando de la Rúa, who was invited by the mayor of the City and lived in his mansion.
Menem was received with a state visit to the kingdom by the same sovereign, who invited him to lunch.
There is a British ambassador in Buenos Aires and an Argentine ambassador in London, with mutual political and cultural activities.
Heads of state or prime ministers who cannot be present can delegate their invitation to a representative.
The members of the Commonwealth, a post-empire organization so dear to the sovereign, have received the most generous of invitations. The governor general, the prime minister of each country and his high commissioner in London can attend. Each of them can distribute at the same time another ten invitations.
All those who have received the highest decorations of the George Cross and Victoria Cross have been invited to the funeral.
So far they have confirmed their attendance presidents of France, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Brazil and Israel.
The president of India, Murmi, who overcame the entire caste system to become president, will also attend.
The kings in the front row
The kings will also be in the first line. In attendance will be King Philipe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium, King Karl Gustav and Queen Silvia of Sweden, King Harald and Queen Sonja of Norway, Queen Maxima and King Willem Alexander of the NetherlandsGrand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg, Prince Albert and Princess Charlotte of Monaco.
Spain, a problem
A protocol problem is being created by the presence of King Felipe of Spain and Queen Leticia with the invitation sent by Buckingham Palace to King Emeritus, Don Juan Carlos, queen elizabeth cousin and Queen Sofia, from whom he is separated. The Emeritus and the sovereign Sofia they will not sit together but they are both cousins of Queen Elizabeth.
The Emeritus left Spain in self-exile to Abu Dhabi and has only returned to his homeland once. I traveled from him, his son and the Royal House fell very badly. But the old monarch has not tried to return. He until now he continues to live in Abu Dhabi.
With heads of state in London, new Prime Minister Liz Truss hopes to meet privately with US President Joe Biden and other leaders, in meetings parallel to the funeral.
The Foreign Office wants to separate the funeral from any diplomatic exercises. But the prime minister is going to try to hold some bilateral meetings, when the new king is going to receive foreign dignitaries at Buckingham Palace.
No information from these meetings will be known in light of the circumstances of the duel and there will be no press conferences.
The British prime minister is likely to meet France’s Emmanuel Macron, Australia’s Anthony Albanese and Canada’s Justin Trudeau.
Paris, correspondent
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