After seven decades of constancy, a door swings shut

The funeral is now ending and the national anthem is being played, before the coffin is taken away for committal and burial at Windsor.

A door will swing shut and a reign of 70 years will come to a close.

Over decades of wrenching change, the Queen represented constancy for a largely still-conservative country. That profile on the stamps, that voice at Christmas, that bowed head on Remembrance Sunday.

For 10 rather bewildering days we have spoken of the Queen and the new King as if they could somehow both be with us.

Now that long week of transition comes to an end.

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