Queen

People have shared messages of condolence with the BBC. They show many felt a personal connection to her.

She just had a way of making you feel you were the most important person in the room." "I could tell when the Queen first walked up she flagged it and I was preparing myself for her to ask about it, but she didn't. However, scroll down the tributes page, and again and again the same thought is expressed. Clare's father was ill and being treated in hospital at the time. When a photograph of the encounter appeared in the Portsmouth Evening News, there was high excitement. Her skill was the ability to remain regal and make what was often a daunting and formal encounter a moment of personal joy. They all reflect one simple and easily overlooked fact: the Queen's job was to recognise and honour achievements on our behalf. It was a little moment of joy in a weekend of national mourning, black ties and solemn processions. It was the proudest day of Bob's life. On 8 June, 1959, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited the Submarine Command, in Gosport, where Mr Churcher's father, Walter "Bob" Churcher, a petty officer in the Royal Canadian Navy, was training to become a submariner. However, the death of the Queen, coupled with a postal strike, rather dampened her hopes of receiving a traditional birthday message from the monarch. Gwendolyn Hoare had long looked forward to a birthday card from the Queen.