Baroness Thatcher's funeral to be held April 17
Baroness Thatcher's funeral will be held on Wednesday April 17, Downing Street has revealed, according to the Daily Mail.
In a break from Royal protocol, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will also attend the service at St Paul's Cathedral next week.
Buckingham Palace has confirmed it will be the first political funeral Britain's monarch has attended personally since Winston Churchill's in 1965.
Meanwhile, the former Conservative prime minister's body was removed from her suite in the Ritz Hotel today, where she died 'peacefully' sitting up in bed, after suffering a stroke while reading a book.
She was taken to an undisclosed location by private ambulance around 12.20am, protected by police outriders.
Preparations today began in earnest for her ceremonial funeral, which will see her coffin taken to the door of St Paul's Cathedral on a horse-drawn gun carriage.
Every living Prime Minister - Sir John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron - plus the Cabinet and shadow cabinet are expected to attend the service.