The Queen's actual funeral will take place at Westminster Abbey nine days after her death, and The Guardian reports that basically everything will be closed—including the stock market—due to a “day of national mourning.”
On the day of the funeral, schools and businesses will close, there will be a two-minute national silence, and the Stock Exchange will close. On Saturday 10 September, the King signed a proclamation stating that the day of the Queen's funeral (Monday 19 September) will be an official Bank Holiday across the UK.
“The moment the queen dies, Charles becomes the sovereign, a quasi-mystical transformation that is marked ceremonially and legally the next day,” Gullace says. “The code name for Charles's accession to the throne is Operation Spring Tide.
Traditionally, the Queen's death would have triggered a 12-day mourning period, but on the 9 September 2022, Buckingham Palace released a statement detailing that King Charles III has requested an extension, with the mourning period lasting until 7 days after Queen Elizabeth's funeral on 19 September 2022.
The Governor-General's role does not change following the death of The Queen. As the transition to the new Sovereign is automatic, the Governor-General will automatically be His Majesty The King's representative in Australia.
The simple answer is No. Australia does not pay a cent for the maintenance or security of the Sovereign.
Australia is a constitutional monarchy and our head of state is the King. However, the King does not have a role in the day-to-day running of Australia.
The Queen will be laid to rest today wearing only two precious pieces of jewellery. Her Majesty, who will be buried next to her husband Prince Philip later today, will wear only her wedding band and a pair of pearl earrings, despite owning a collection worth millions of pounds.
Australians have been given a one-off public holiday on Thursday as a national day of mourning to mark the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Will there be 12 days of mourning? Though the country won't get 12 days off to properly mourn the monarch, the official mourning period after the Queen's death lasts that long, with her funeral taking place on the ninth day. Each day after D-Day is known as 'D+1', 'D+2', and so on, until the funeral on the tenth day.
Major shops and businesses across the UK shut their doors as a mark of respect for Queen Elizabeth II on the day of her funeral.
However, there is no mention of how an existing state or territory could secede – leave or exit – from Australia. The Preamble to the Constitution states that the Australian federation is 'indissoluble' – not able to be broken. There has only been one major attempt to test the indissolubility of the Commonwealth.
Through attending engagements and in other ways, the Queen supported many charitable causes. Research published by CAF in 2012 found the late monarch was among the world's largest supporters of charities, with an estimated £1.4 billion raised just from her work alone. As in all areas, the Queen led by example.
The sentimental pieces that will stay with the late monarch forever are revealed. The Queen was buried with a small handful of her most treasured and personal jewellery .
While the monarch enjoys her first cup of tea from the comfort of her bed, her maid “will go into the adjoining bathroom to draw the bath”. The bath has to be “exactly the right temperature” - how hot or cold the Queen likes her bath, no one knows.
“The Queen Consort, really, gets first choice of the Queen's jewelry. And after that is Princess of Wales, of course, Kate. The Duchess of Sussex, I'm sure, will come in for some jewelry at some point, but she is much further down the pecking order.”
She is the longest-serving monarch in British history. Busy from morning to night, she carries out more speeches and public meetings than all other members of the Royal family combined.
Despite the belief held by many Australian landholders that they own their land absolutely, including anything above or below it, due to the Doctrine of Tenure, the law in Australia holds that the Crown has absolute ownership - not withstanding any native title claims.
The monarch remains constitutionally empowered to exercise the royal prerogative against the advice of the prime minister or the cabinet, but in practice would likely only do so in emergencies or where existing precedent does not adequately apply to the circumstances in question.
The Royal Family has opened its books to show how the Queen receives her money. A taxpayer-funded payment, known as the Sovereign Grant, is paid to the Royal Family each year - but it's not the Queen's only source of income.
The monarch appoints the governor-general and the governors, on the advice of the respective State and Federal executive governments. These are now almost the only constitutional functions of the monarch with regard to Australia.
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan no longer receive money from the Royal Family, and earn their income from commercial arrangements.
The Queen is the only person to declare war and peace. This dates back from when the Monarch was responsible for raising, maintaining and equipping the Army and Navy. Today, this power can only be exercised on the advice of Ministers.
It may surprise you to know that while the queen was the richest member of the royal family, she wasn't a billionaire.
Does the Queen ever clean? Although it's unlikely the Queen binge watches Netflix while ordering Uber Eats to Buckingham Palace, it turns out Her Majesty does like to get her hands dirty at home - and even does her own washing up.