THE REAL QUEEN

Few of us will ever feel real grief for someone we never actually knew in person.

- Duncan Larcombe

A moment when our eyes spontaneously well up as we watch a coffin carry them on the final journey to their place of rest.

But feel this we did as the nation went into mourning and the magnificent second Elizabethan era came to an end.

The Queen – who so graciously reigned over us throughout the significant moments of all our lives – was dead. Our constant, our strength, our Queen was gone in the blink of an eye.

While the public wept for a life that had been led, the whole world seemed to mourn our beloved Queen.

A woman who had no personal enemies and the respect of all those at loggerheads with the institution she led.

The Queen’s passing caused an avalanche of memories to flood in from all over.