herselfless she promised to do when she was 21.on to duty was an inspiration and example to us all. she was respected and loved, notjust here in the united kingdom is an in her other realms of the commonwealth, but across the world. and that love, respect and admiration was born out of and admiration was born out of a position but because of the person she was. a woman of dignity and grace, of compassion and warmth, of mischief and joy, of wisdom and experience and of a deep understanding of her people. like so many, until last evening, i have never known another monarch. she was a constant throughout our lives, always there for us, uniting us at times of difficulty and, as others have said, most recently during reigncovid —— covid. her passing marks a generational change not because just the length of her service but what she lived through. in she was with world leaders notjust as queen but as someone who had borne uniform during the second world war, an experience which quite apart from everything else had taught how to strip and