The Archbishop of York has been remembering the 'joyfully simple and ordinary' side of Her Majesty.
"Later that day I got a message from the palace and indeed the Queen had watched on television," Archbishop Cottrell said.He said the Queen had, according to Buckingham Palace, been "touched" by his words.He said people were still feeling a range of emotions as they try to process the monarch's death.
"It's a bereavement, and with every bereavement there is shock, there is loss but there is also thankfulness for a life lived well," he said. "A life of astonishing service. She was a person of simple but profound faith, and it was that faith that shaped her."
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