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Tears, candles and a farewell to ‘boss lady’: the world mourns Queen Elizabeth II
From the UK to the Commonwealth and beyond, admirers are paying their respects to the longest reigning monarch in British history
On the streets of Sydney and Kyiv, they laid flowers. In California they lit candles; in Honolulu, flags flew at half-mast, and, in Paris, the Eiffel Tower dimmed its lights. In London, two rainbows emerged in the skies above Buckingham palace.
The remarkably broad sweep of Queen Elizabeth II’s life spanned the great to the inglorious, Churchill to Ceaușescu, Mandela to Mugabe. But much of her lasting legacy will lie in the tens of thousands of quieter lives she touched during her reign.