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Latest PostThank you for helping us remember the Queen
Deborah Turness
CEO, BBC News and Current Affairs
As the Chief Executive of BBC News I have the honour to write the closing message on this page of thousands of tributes to Queen Elizabeth II. And it’s a message of thanks to every single person who has taken the time to share their story.
When the death of Queen Elizabeth was announced, we at the BBC wanted to create a place where people could come together to share their tributes, their photos and recollections.
The response has been incredible. We have received thousands of touching stories of meeting the Queen, special moments, memories and messages of condolence.
Thank you to everyone - from all over the world - for coming together here in this virtual space for very real acts a of remembrance.
Looking at the contributions, the common theme that emerges is that the Queen had a way of making each person she met feel like the most important person in that moment.
Thank you again for helping us remember a woman whose promise to serve her people was fulfilled through a life of duty, which touched so many people.
'No-one forgets a conversation with the Queen'
Over the past 10 days, we've been asking you to share your memories of seeing and meeting Queen Elizabeth II or to send in your personal tributes.
Thousands of people have sent their own messages of condolence.
"The stories speak to how many people felt a personal connection to Her Majesty," says BBC Media and Arts Correspondent David Sillito.
"It reminds us that, while the official record of the life of the Queen will be a series of great moments of national pageantry, those were rare special occasions.
"Her life was much more about handshakes, birthday cards and meeting ordinary, but often remarkable, people.
"No-one forgets a conversation with the Queen. And our tributes page has been a little reminder that for hundreds of thousands of us, the Queen was more than a distant figure in a palace. She was someone with whom they felt a personal connection."
You can read more from David on the tributes here.
'She always has been incredibly kind to everybody'
Sibella Laing went to Cambridge University with King Charles III, has known the Royal Family since she was a child and has met the Queen.
One of the oldest people in the queue?
Ghana pupils watch funeral - and write condolence messages
'The Queen belonged in Windsor'
Marie Wood, 56, lived in Windsor for eight years when she was training to be a nurse and saw the Queen one day while out for a walk.
Marie came to Windsor for the Queen's funeral on Monday, watching the procession from the Long Walk.
Travelling from Italy to deliver a special portrait of the Queen
'She made you feel as if you were important'
Simone Kennett was head teacher of Jersey College for Girls when the Queen visited to open a new building in 2001.
'I said: 'All right, Liz?''
Glyn Sherman, from Coventry, was serving in the Royal Horse Artillery in 1984 when as a guard of honour he met the Queen at a birthday parade.
Born in the same year as the Queen
The girl named after the Queen because her sister met her
Alicia Finn-O’Shea, who is 10, met the Queen as a four-month-old baby.
The family were so impressed by that encounter they named Alicia's little sister Elizabeth. She's now aged seven and prefers to be called Eliza, but they came to the Mall on Monday to watch the funeral procession with their mum Claire.
'I used to make cakes for Her Majesty'
'The Queen was my fantastic ex-boss'
Peter John Wailes, who served in the RAF for 25 years, met the Queen many times and headed to Windsor on the day of her funeral to pay his respects.
The 63-year-old recalls how once at Buckingham Palace during a VJ Day parade the Queen noticed a veteran was struggling in the heat and ordered an officer to get them some water.
“She was fantastic and in charge of everything,“ he says.
Photo of us handing Queen flowers was on parents' wall for 20 years
Archbishop played puzzles with Queen
The Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell shared a jigsaw puzzle and watched TV with the Queen at Sandringham.
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Remembering the Queen's smile
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'It was an honour to be a soldier for her'
Three army veterans from Worcestershire pay tribute to the Queen...
The Queen was asked who she was - but smiled and handled it well