Balmoral: Tears, flowers and a royal sketch for the Queen

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As word has spread of the death of Queen Elizabeth II, people have travelled to the gates of the Balmoral Estate in Aberdeenshire to pay respects to the country's longest-serving monarch.

Despite the rain, people of all ages came to leave floral tributes at the castle, where the Queen died peacefully on Thursday afternoon.

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