The week of the Queen's funeral: where did the deaths go?

We’re sorry to distract you from Harry and Megan’s Netflix expose series, but while we were reviewing the excess deaths, we noticed something odd about the week of the Queen’s funeral.

In the week ending 23 Sep, 8,751 deaths were registered; this was the week of Her Majesty’s State Funeral, Monday, 19 September.  As deaths could not be registered on that…