A little girl wriggled in her buggy clutching a Peppa Pig toy, eager to reach the barrier to add to the bright flowers piling high.
Over and over, oblivious to the teary, smiling eyes moistening around her, she called out “Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye” to a Queen she will barely remember.
Outside Buckingham Palace today thousands came to say farewell, packing around the front gates and the Queen Victoria monument.