LONDON, July 12 (UPI) -- The British government has decided that former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is to have a state funeral when her time comes, officials said.
Winston Churchill, who headed the British government during World War II, was the only prime minister to be honored with a state funeral in the 20th century. Four leaders -- Admiral Nelson and the Duke of Wellington, who were the great military leaders of the Napoleonic Wars, and two prime ministers, Henry Palmerston and William Gladstone -- had 19th century state funerals.