
There are few things as challenging as the loss of a steady force for good in your life – and the death of the Queen on September 8 at the age of 96 will cause grief to ricochet through her family.
A loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, for decades she was her family’s leader and source of strength – its matriarch. (For many of her subjects, she played a similar role, symbolising stability as the world changed.)