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After a busy and pleasant day on a training session and then catching up with friends, I was saddened to read on Twitter that the Queen was ill. As the day went on it was clear that this was serious.
Reports that her children and grandsons were heading to Scotland, it was very clear that this could be the moment many of us have dreaded for some time.
At around 1830 (6.30pm) as we all now know the news broke that Her Majesty the Queen had passed away.
Of course, the Queen has been a figurehead not only of a nation and the commonwealth but of the Royal Navy, in which her late husband Prince Phillip served.
The Royal Navy has a long-established relationship with many members of the Royal Family having served in it.
Indeed the Royal Navy wears the crown of the Monarch on much of their insignia, such as the officer's cap badge.
Cap badge with the Queen's Crown of the late Queen Elizabeth II.
Cap badge with a King's Crown of the late King George IV, the Queen's Father and King Charles III grandfather who passed away in 1952.
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