Factbox: Westminster Abbey - traditional church for royals in life and death

FILE PHOTO: Police officers keep watch outside Westminster Abbey, ahead of Britain's Queen Elizabeth's funeral, in London, Britain, September 17, 2022. REUTERS/Tom Nicholson

LONDON (Reuters) - Westminster Abbey in central London has been the site of coronations, weddings and burials of English and then British royalty for nearly 1,000 years.

On Monday, it will be the venue for the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth, who died on Sept. 8 in Balmoral, Scotland, at the age of 96. She was also married and crowned in the Abbey.