It was a day for the whole world to mourn - the grandest and most majestic of public farewells.
And from the solemn majesty of her Westminster Abbey funeral through the poignant reverence of her last drive through Windsor’s Great Park, it all led to one final public moment: her descent into the Royal Vault of St George’s Chapel - the last time the billions watching around the world would ever lay eyes the great Queen Elizabeth II, the world’s longest-serving monarch, and Head of the Commonwealth.
Yet for King Charles III and her closest family, there was to be one last goodbye.