an amazing woman. just a very sombre mood in windsor, really. what did she represent to people of your generation? a guiding light, a moral code, how to conduct yourself, - how to act, what is - right and what s wrong. here on the streets of royal windsor, the sense of a an epoch having passed is palpable. there is the sense of mourning, shared with the entire nation. but something else. for these people have lost a neighbour, a queen who was part of their daily lives. amir bukhari was getting calls from relatives in pakistan, who had heard the news. he runs a cafe besides windsor castle. no words to express my emotions. it is really sad. what did she mean to you? not only me but everyone in the world. everybody feels very sad, very down. for us, she was a neighbour. and we feel more. no matter how long anticipated, the end has crystallised loss. the passing of a monarch, who symbolised to people the best of their nation, of themselves. fergal keane, bbc news, windsor. you ve
Peace between the israelis and the palestinians. Pope francis. Wholl be weve will be looking back at royal year later. The queen has missed her annual Christmas Day visit to church because of a heavy cold. Other members of the royal family including the Duke Of Edinburgh attended the service at sandringham without her. In her traditional christmas broadcast, the queen focussed on the theme of inspiration. Our royal correspondent, nicholas witchell, reports. She recalled that this had been the year of her 90th birthday and paid tribute to the inspiring work of charities with which she has been associated. And she said much more could be achieved globally by acting with others. It is understandable that we sometimes think the worlds problems are so big that we can do little to help. On our own, we cannot end wars will wipe out injustice. But the humility and impact of thousands of small act of goodness can be bigger than we imagined. Her own life, she said, had been guided by the inspiri
elizabeth in 1952. they chose a picture from before her reign. 0ur picture from before her reign. our hearts are broken, they say. the columnist sarah vine saying how to find the words? 0ur grief is 100 different emotions. the theme you will see through this is white and black mastheads, kind of taking the colour away from that part of the paper. making it respectful but also touching. but there are two main pictures that run throughout the papers. i will show you the guardian. they go with cecil beaton s portrait of queen elizabeth ii. around the time of her coronation in 1953, in the throne room of buckingham palace. a painted backdrop depicting westminster abbey, she is wearing her coronation dress, the auburn cross visible, and the times goes with that also and on the back of the times s wraparound is this quote from the queen s christmas message in 1957 which was the first time it was