'I'm sorry for your loss' he said softly, and a floodgate of tears opened - CAROLE MALONE

I WAS 1,000 miles away in a restaurant in Ibiza the evening I heard the Queen had died. I was sitting at a table with friends, many of them fellow journalists, when the news exploded on our phones. How could it be? How could she have gone when just two days earlier she had sworn in Liz Truss - her 15th Prime Minister?