The dying of the Queen has marked the top of an period in British historical past that lasted 70 lengthy years.
When Her Majesty got here to the throne the nation was nonetheless recovering from warfare, the empire was partly intact, and the Windrush technology was nonetheless making its approach throughout the Atlantic.
We stay in a really totally different nation at this time – however did the Queen play an element in that sluggish march of modernisation – or was she an emblem of custom that survived regardless of all of the modifications on this planet over the previous seven many years.