When she woke up on Friday morning, Rahila Akhtar says she still felt in shock. “It was just emptiness,” she said. “The only thing I can compare it to is when my mum passed away four years ago. It was the same sense of ‘what now?’”
On a sombre day outside Windsor Castle, the 49-year-old was one of the thousands of mourners who came to pay their respects following the Queen’s death on Thursday.
