I agree totally with Snowdrops. I'm not a Royalist, never have been and never will be, but one has to give the late Queen total respect for her dedication to duty. Not many, in fact I can't think of anyone, who, at the age of 96, was still working up until two days before they died. Apart from that, she was a very clever woman who hardly ever put a foot wrong in her seventy years on the throne and knew exactly how to deal with all manner of people no matter what their stripe.