On the streets of Sydney and Kyiv, they laid flowers. In California they lit candles; in Honolulu, flags flew at half-mast, and, in Paris, the Eiffel Tower dimmed its lights. In London, two rainbows emerged in the skies above Buckingham palace.
The remarkably broad sweep of Queen Elizabeth II’s life spanned the great to the inglorious, Churchill to Ceaușescu, Mandela to Mugabe. But much of her lasting legacy will lie in the tens of thousands of quieter lives she touched during her reign.
