Britain has entered a 10-day period of national mourning following the passing of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday (8 September) at her beloved Balmoral estate in rural Aberdeenshire.
Her Majesty’s death at 96 brings an end to an extraordinary 70-year reign, the longest of any monarch in our history, which began when she succeeded her father George IV in 1952, and ended in the year of her platinum jubilee celebrations with her inviting her 15th prime minister, Liz Truss, to form a new government.
