The Latest Breaking News from Queen Elizabeth II

Family was an important part of her majesty's private life and she was one of the first visitors to stay with William and Kate after the birth of their first daughter, Charlotte.

Jignesh Patel and his younger brother Yash’s painted the Queen in Kingsley Road, Hounslow

The late monarch had loaned the princess the sparkling piece in the past.

For many, the week following the death of the Queen has been a time of mourning. It has also been one of tension around the question of free speech and protest. There have been several instances of police arresting or questioning protesters expressing anti-monarchy sentiment in London, Oxford and Edinburgh.

The body has closed all its pitches across the capital for the duration of the mourning period.

The opportunity to see the Queen lying in state opened up at 5pm on Wednesday at Westminster Hall

A number of Royal mourners have been left in dismay today after witnessing what they regard as "disrespectful" behaviour during the procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall

What do you write to someone who will never be able to read it? I certainly didn’t know after my grandad passed away, writes Adrian Chiles

Her coffin left Buckingham Palace for the last time Wednesday, borne on a horse-drawn carriage and saluted by cannons and the tolling of Big Ben, in a solemn procession to Westminster Hall.