I feel strangely emotional. I'm not really an anglophile and have no real interest in the royals. I know her position was complicated and included some of the nastiness of the 20th Century.
But she was the Queen for 21 years before I was even born, and my kids know who she is. It's quite remarkable and I feel like some little part of the world that I know, the world that has been in place my whole life, has passed on into history.
It's sad in its own way. The UK will be in mourning and I send my sympathies to the nation and all who treasured Queen Elizabeth II as their monarch, whether in law, tradition, or simply in their own hearts.