Lady Amelia Windsor turned heads as she walked the catwalk at London Fashion Week for Manchester designer Zeynep Kartal. The fashion model, dubbed the 'most beautiful royal' walked in the Zeynep Kartal x Li & Fung spring/summer 2023 runway show.
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Taking a sip of his tea, John Henshaw watches on as Her Majesty's coffin is carried through Westminster Abbey.
"She was the greatest Queen you could have ever had," he says.
John, wearing a black ribbon, joined fellow residents and staff at The Dell Care Home in Gorton to watch the funeral of Elizabeth II this morning (Monday). Union Jack flags were waved and cuppas supped as the home fell silent.
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Greater Manchester - and the country - paused as the Queen took her final journey; marking a moment in history.
There was a feeling of sadness as elderly residents stopped to reflect and remember a monarch they lived alongside for decades.
Newspaper cutouts of the Queen throughout her life were scattered across the walls, with repurposed bunting from the Platinum Jubilee earlier this year hanging from the ceiling.
The décor - a nod to the enormity of the event - also served as a poignant reminder of a long life that many at the home see as inextricable from their own.
John added: "The Queen was a nice lady. She was the greatest person to do the job for 70 years."
"She was 96, that's a good age that," Joe Fitzgerald said. "Seventy years on the throne. That's a good amount of time."
The Queen lived alongside these residents; aged alongside them and watched the world change alongside them. As Charles III mourned his mother, the seismic shift from Queen to King, for those saw Her Majesty as one of their own, was clear.
"It's very sad. It's a sad day," Joe added.
Some residents recalled Queen Elizabeth as if she was a friend. "I think she was lovely," Ann Winfield said. "She was a very good Queen."
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Lady Amelia Windsor turned heads as she walked the catwalk at London Fashion Week for Manchester designer Zeynep Kartal. The fashion model, dubbed the 'most beautiful royal' walked in the Zeynep Kartal x Li & Fung spring/summer 2023 runway show.
More anti-monarchy messages have been spotted in Greater Manchester during the country’s mourning period for Her Majesty The Queen.
The Queen's coffin was adorned with a colourful bouquet of flowers which was requested especially by the King. Her Majesty was laid to rest during a state funeral at Westminster Abbey on Monday (September 19), which was attended by 2,000 invited guests.
A nine year-old boy received one of the last ever thank-you cards from the Queen, posted out from Buckingham Palace on the day Her Majesty died.
Zara Tindall has been praised after she carried on with an emotional tribute to her grandmother alongside her younger brother and cousins despite a wardrobe-related mishap. Princess Anne's daughter joined a 15-minute vigil around the late monarch's coffin on Saturday (September 17).
Manchester Evening News readers have hit out at This Morning presenters Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield after they were recorded allegedly 'jumping the queue' to see the Queen lying in state. The hosting duo were seen filing past Queen Elizabeth II's coffin on Friday (September 16).
Fans of the royal family were reduced to tears as the Queen's eight grandchildren held a vigil around her coffin. The Prince of Wales led his brother the Duke of Sussex, as well as his cousins Zara Tindall and Peter Philips, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie and Lady Louise Windsor and Viscount Severn into Westminster Hall early on Saturday evening (September 16).
David Beckham has joined thousands of mourners queuing to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth. The former England football captain joined the queue in London to see the coffin of the late British monarch, who is lying in state in Westminster Hall, at around 2am on Friday morning (16. 09.
David Beckham was determined to pay his respects to Queen Elizabeth II — no matter how long it would take.
Friends and family of Chorlton legend John Daly have paid heartfelt tribute to him following his death.
The dad of a girl who was visited by the Queen in hospital after the Manchester Arena bombing has recalled how 'kind and genuine' the late monarch was.
Weary legs, aching backs and a steely determination to complete the most British of tasks for the Queen. Thousands of mourners are now filing past Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin during her lying in state at the Palace of Westminster.
Greater Manchester Policing is dispatching hundreds of police officers to London to boost security ahead of the state funeral at Westminster Abbey on Monday.
A ‘festival of football’ will be heading to Escape To Freight Island ready for the start of the World Cup. The outdoor and indoor spaces of the sprawling beer garden and food hall will be transformed with a special ‘pub zone’ and a huge space to watch the matches.
ITV has confirmed its plans for broadcasting the Queen's funeral. Queen Elizabeth II will be laid to rest in a state funeral at Westminster Abbey next Monday, September 19.
A man was dragged away from crowds by police officers during a procession where the Queen's coffin was carried from the Palace of Holyroodhouse to Edinburgh's St Giles' Cathedral.
Holly Willoughby and her children have joined the mourners leaving tributes to the Queen following her passing. After it was announced that Queen Elizabeth II had died on Thursday aged 96 members of the public have headed to iconic royal landmarks to pay their respects.