Britain is turning a new page in her long history. The one constant in our lives during the last 70 turbulent years is no longer with us.
So it is understandable to feel cast adrift, a little lost, weepy even. You would have to be aged in your 80s to remember anything different.
The Queen was not just our anchor to the past but our beacon of the future. Just as the world spun ever faster, she never stood still.
