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-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com looking right now at buckingham palace. people, though fewer in number, are still showing up at this hour. the embodiment, as cnn's max foster put it earlier in the program, of a nation slightly loss after the passing of queen elizabeth ii earlier today in scotland. she was, as many have said, the only monarch most britons have known. and she may have been the first british monarch most britons have known in a familiar, more regal sense, the first to usher in the modern united kingdom. christian am pour said tonight from the grand britain of h...

American troops, d-day, all that. to her, it's very -- it's a very important part of her growing up. >> whilst the british monarch has no political power, elizabeth wielded immense power as a figure head, as demonstrated in 2011, when she became the first monarch to visit neighboring ireland since its separation from the united kingdom. >> we can all see things which we would wish -- >> reporter: then prime minister david cameron described the trip as a game changer. a year later, the queen travelled to belfast in another significant moment of her reign, an historic handshake with former ira c...