A wave, a smile, and a spectacle – Queen brings curtain down on Platinum Jubilee celebrations
It was a wilfully surreal, breakneck, and often baffling race through seven decades of popular culture which spanned thousands of performers, elaborate puppets, and a kaleidoscope of colour. But at its end, all that mattered was when the balcony doors of Buckingham Palace were thrown open, and out stepped the woman at the centre of it all.