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Gordon Brown shares his thoughts on a remarkable sovereign whose life was dedicated to duty and service to her people.

Not so long ago, the death of a monarch would have been a cue for outpourings of elegies and poetic commemorations. One might have thought the end of the second Elizabethan era would prompt something similar – but apparently not.

The late Queen’s most defining milestones took place at the Abbey, both in terms of her personal happiness and her public duty.

The Dean of Westminster said the service would remember the Queen’s place in history, but at its heart was the personal sorrow of a grieving family.

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The city's councillors gathered to pay tribute to the late Queen a week on from her death, and said the people of Edinburgh "did us proud".

When Queen Elizabeth II passed away on September 8, 2022, there can’t have been many people in the UK who hadn’t heard about it within hours of her death. The media was on high alert from around midday, when an announcement from Buckingham Palace made clear that the monarch’s health…

Imagine being 25 years old and 5,000 miles from home when you get a call delivering the worst possible news – your parent has died. For Elizabeth Windsor, this call had a far greater impact. She was now taking on the greatest of responsibilities, shouldering the burden of the sovereign’s…

The Queen is said to have personally chosen Westminster Abbey for her funeral rather than Windsor because she wanted to make it easier for more people to attend and for the public to gather