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State Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II: guide

While the funeral begins 8pm Monday AEST, Live coverage is very extensive. Here are your viewing choices.

  • Buckingham Palace has confirmed the State Funeral of Her Majesty The Queen will take place at Westminster Abbey on Monday, 19th September at 8pm AEST.
  • From 10pm is the Procession from Westminster Abbey through the streets of London on the State Gun Carriage, before the Queen’s Coffin makes the journey to Windsor in the State Hearse.
  • From 12am Tues is the Queen’s Coffin arriving in Windsor. Members of the Royal Family will join the Procession before the Committal Service at St George’s Chapel.
  • A Committal Service at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, will take place at 1am AEST Tues.
  • A Private Burial will take place in The King George VI Memorial Chapel later that evening, conducted by the Dean of Windsor. The Queen is to be buried together with The Duke of Edinburgh. 

ABC, Seven, Nine, SBS and 10 BOLD will screen Live coverage of the State Funeral of Her Majesty The Queen on Monday. The Order of Service for the State Funeral Service and the Committal Service will be issued 7:30am Monday Australian time.

ABC coverage is from 4pm AEST but pauses for a 20 min News bulletin at 7pm AEST (6:30pm SA). Coverage continues to 2am AEST.

Both Seven and Nine will commence coverage from 12pm Monday and roll through to Sunrise & Today, respectively on Tuesday morning, breaking only for evening news bulletins (earlier in Adelaide & Perth). Both are Commercial-free from 7.00pm.

10 has an extended edition of The Project on 10 Bold with a 2hr State Funeral from 8pm AEST on its multichannel. Normal programming will take place on 10.

SBS screens from 7:30pm – 3:30am AEST.

ABC 4pm AEST

On ABC TV and ABC News our live coverage begins at 4.00pm AEST, with a special one-hour news event hosted by Jeremy Fernandez who will be joined by our team in London – Lisa Millar, Michael Rowland, Isabella Higgins and Nick Dole.

From 5.00pm, ABC News and ABC TV will broadcast the BBC’s coverage of official arrivals at Westminster Abbey, followed by the funeral proceedings.

Normal programming on ABC TV and ABC News will be suspended from 5.00pm AEST for the eight-hour duration of the broadcast with the exception of an ABC news bulletin on ABC TV at 7.00pm in eastern states, 6.30pm in SA/NT and no local bulletin in WA.

abc.net.au/news/queen-elizabeth-ii
abc.net.au/QueenElizabethII

Seven 12pm AEST

Commercial-free from 7.00pm

Extensive coverage on Australia’s most watched network will begin with Sunrise, live from Buckingham Palace at 5.00am AEST. A special edition of The Morning Show will immediately follow at 9.30am AEST.

From 12.00pm AEST, 7NEWS will deliver rolling coverage as people gather to commemorate the extraordinary life of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch.

Seven will then bring viewers unrivalled commercial-free coverage of the Queen’s state funeral from 7.00pm AEST.

Hosts Michael Usher, David Koch and Natalie Barr will anchor Seven’s special broadcast from key vantage points throughout London, including Buckingham Palace, Westminster Hall and Westminster Abbey.

A regal team of royal experts will contribute to Seven’s leading coverage, headed by the BBC’s acclaimed 30-year chief royal correspondent Angela Rippon CBE, London’s top Palace Insider, Victoria Arbiter, and Sunrise’s royal editor, King Charles III biographer and close friend, Rob Jobson.

7NEWS: The Grateful Goodbye
Live and commercial-free from 7.00pm Monday on Channel 7 and 7plus

Broadcast times on Channel 7 and 7plus:
Monday 19 September

Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane
5.00am Sunrise
9.30am The Morning Show
11.30am 7NEWS Mornings
12.00pm 7NEWS: The Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II
6.00pm 7NEWS
7.00pm 7NEWS: The Grateful Goodbye

Adelaide
4.30am Sunrise
9.30am The Morning Show
11.00am 7NEWS Mornings
11.30am 7NEWS: The Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II
5.30pm 7NEWS
6.30pm 7NEWS: The Grateful Goodbye

Perth
3.00am Sunrise
9.30am 7NEWS Mornings
10.00am 7NEWS: The Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II
4.00pm 7NEWS
5.00pm 7NEWS: The Grateful Goodbye

Nine 12pm AEST

Commercial-free from 7.00pm

On Monday, Tracy Grimshaw, Peter Overton, Karl Stefanovic and Allison Langdon, together with Nine’s team of reporters, will be live from the UK as the world farewells Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Nine’s rolling coverage begins in front of Buckingham Palace at 5.00am with Today hosted by Karl Stefanovic and Allison Langdon, followed by Today Extra hosted by David Campbell and Sylvia Jeffreys at 9.00am.

From midday, Georgie Gardner and David Campbell will mark the end of our longest reigning monarch with three hours of coverage honouring The Queen’s amazing life.

At 3.00pm we will return to the UK where Tracy Grimshaw, Peter Overton, Karl Stefanovic and Allison Langdon will lead our coverage from Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and across the UK as the country wakes up on this historic day.

Special state-based editions of 9News will be broadcast from 6.00pm (5.30pm Adelaide, 4.00pm Perth), before we return to England at 7.00pm and roll right through the evening, featuring coverage from the BBC headed by the world’s pre-eminent royal expert Huw Edwards.

Every moment of the State Funeral, Procession through London to Windsor and the family service at Windsor Castle will be live and commercial-free on Channel 9 and 9Now.

Karl and Ally will then return for a special edition of Today from Buckingham Palace on Tuesday morning from 5.00am.

Join us for this historic event. Monday.

10 8pm AEST

Ten days after her passing, the world will say their final farewell to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, as she is remembered and honoured in a State Funeral at Westminster Abbey on Monday, 19 September.

Network 10 will broadcast extensive live coverage of Her Majesty Queen Elizabath II’s State Funeral across 10, 10 Bold and 10 Play.

The special broadcast will begin at 5pm with 10 News First on 10, with presenters Sandra Sully and Jennifer Keyte reporting live from London.

The Project will follow from 6.30pm with Carrie Bickmore, Waleed Aly and Hamish Macdonald on the desk, and crossing live to Lisa Wilkinson in London. An extended 90-minute broadcast of The Project will be simulcast live into all markets from 6.30pm AEST on 10 Bold.

The State Funeral for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will commence live at 8pm AEST on 10 Bold.

10 News First, The Project and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s State Funeral will be streamed live on 10 Play.

Queen Elizabeth II: The Final Goodbye
10 News First live from 5pm on 10 in all markets
The Project from 6.30pm on 10 and simulcast live from 6.30pm AEST on 10 Bold in all markets.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s State Funeral live from 8pm AEST on 10 Bold in all markets.
The Queen: A Royal Life 10pm on 10 Bold rpt

SBS 7:30pm AEST

The State Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II – Live coverage of The State Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (until 3:30am)

Britbox:

On Demand:

Monday September 19th
Good Morning Britain (Extended)

Tuesday September 20th
Good Morning Britain (Extended)
The State Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

19 Responses

  1. This clip floating around online of Peter Overton and Tracey Grimshaw having absolutely no idea who Liz Truss was when she arrived for the funeral is very amusing.

  2. i am switching between a few broadcasts but have already enjoyed the unique insights of Angela Rippon & Victoria Arbiter on Seven so will mostly stick with 7 (& i find their accents irresistibly British). Have missed recording the Project on the pvr so will try for the encore edition, but epg & online guide shows 60 mins for both, not 90 minutes, i guess it would be easier to stream it but oh how i loath using Tenplay!

  3. I was over the overabundance of Queen Liz coverage from Day 1 … and that has not changed after a week and a half – I will gladly stick with 10’s Regular Schedule of Amazing Race & HYBPA before going to House of the Dragon.

    1. I guess I feel the opposite. I’m grateful for the extensive coverage and have had it on late into the night every night since September 8th. I very much doubt that anyone who visits this site has a clear memory of the last time a British monarch passed (apologies to any tech savvy late septuagenarians or octogenarians that we might have amongst us!), so we really are witnessing an historic moment. Even when King Charles passes, the moment won’t be as historically significant, if only because he will only have reigned for 20 or so years (as opposed to 70). We have a plethora of multichannels available to watch, so we always have a choice. Questions have already been raised about why TEN aren’t airing the funeral on their main channel, but clearly, they have their reasons. The silver lining for those who have zero interest in the British royal family is that everything will return to normal on Wednesday (allowing for recaps on Tuesday).

      1. Likewise…I appreciate the significance of the event….I am a royalist…I remember both previous Kings…the Queens Father and the one that abdicated, a David btw, and the Queens Coronation….I have enjoyed 9s presentations….which is strange….I do not watch much 9 other than the News and A Current Affair….

  4. Knew as soon as Nine announced they’d start at midday (3am UK time) that Seven would follow suit or go earlier. They just can’t help themselves.

    It’s important that alternatives are provided but odd that 10 are doing that on the main channel rather than Bold in this case.

  5. Whether you are a Royalist or not this historical state funeral will be unique as it could be possibly the last time a long serving British Monarch will be buried with such solemn pageantry and reverence by her people, the British Monarchy will change as all things change so the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II should not be missed.

    1. It really wasn’t up to him, to be honest. Protocol dictates that the public holiday has to occur the day after the PM arrives back in Australia after having attended the monarch’s funeral. Given this, it would have been physically impossible for him to give us the Tuesday off, as he would have to leave the UK on Sunday to arrive back in Australia on Monday, and so he’d miss the funeral (and defeat the purpose of going to the UK in order to attend the funeral).

      I think there will be a lot of bleary eyes at work on Tuesday…

    1. BBC is the prominent choice for rebroadcast, yet it seems as though the UK viewers prefer the ITV coverage. It’s evident in the extended live stream of Queen Lying-In-State where the ITV stream has consistently had more viewers than BBC throughout. Strong competition between the two UK broadcasters. The BBC commentary has been highly informative.

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