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Death and state funeral of Winston Churchill
Funeral procession in London, | |
| Date | 24&#;January&#;&#;() (date of death) 30 January (date of state funeral) |
|---|---|
| Location | St Paul's Cathedral, London (official funeral ceremony) |
| Cause | Stroke |
| Burial | St Martin's Churchyard, Bladon |
Sir Winston Churchill, the British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War, died on 24 January , aged [1][2][3] His was the first state funeral in the United Kingdom for a non-member of the royal family since Edward Carson's in [4][5] It was the last state funeral until Queen Elizabeth II's on 19 September [6] The official funeral lasted for four days.
Planning for the funeral, known as Operation Hope Not, began after Churchill's stroke in while in his second term as prime minister. After several revisions due to Churchill's continued survival (mainly because "t