GALLERY: The most unusual and touching tributes to the Queen
ByKatherine Ferries, Kami Thomson, Jason Hedges, Wullie Marr
A Paddington Bear tribute. Picture by Wullie Marr / DC Thomson
A marmalade sandwich, decorated post boxes and lines of tractors and horse riders.
These were some of the more unusual tributes to Queen Elizabeth II as she made her final journey through the north-east of Scotland.
Tens of thousands of people turned out across Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen as Her Majesty travelled from her “favourite place”, Balmoral Castle.
It was at the gates of the castle one well-wisher left a special gift with the message “A marmalade sandwich for your journey ma’am” – a nod to the Queen’s much-loved Platinum Jubilee sketch during which she had tea at Buckingham Palace with popular children’s character Paddington Bear.
In nearby Ballater, where the Queen and her family are held in such high esteem by locals, post boxes were knitted in her memory.
As the cortege headed for Aberdeen, dozens of tractors lined up either side of the A93, a route the Queen would have taken so many times on the way to her Deeside retreat.
On the outskirts of the city, horse riders also paid a roadside vigil, a tribute to the Queen’s love of the animals.
A knitted topper of Queen Elizabeth II has been placed on a post box in Ballater, Scotland.
People gathered at Newtonhill / Chapleton to pay respect to the Queen as she makes her last journey toward Edinburgh in the Royal Procession.
Riders from the Old Milltimber Farm Livery stood and saluted the coffin as it passed. Picture by Andrew Wilkie.
Six-year-old Eilidh Scott on her Shetland pony paying tribute to the Queen as the cortege passed by. Picture by Laurie Smith.
Farmers from around Banchory gathered together with their families and lined their tractors up in an agricultural salute as the Queen’s cortege passed by. Picture supplied by Rodney Blackhall
Farmers from around Banchory gathered together with their families and lined their tractors up in an agricultural salute as the Queen’s cortege passed by. Picture supplied by Rodney Blackhall
Drawings of the Queen in Aboyne.
A marmalade sandwich is left by a picture of Paddington bear and Her Majesty.
Fife woman Kim Rennie made a woven corgi tribute to Her Majesty and laid it amongst the flowers at the gates of Balmoral. Picture by Kami Thomson / DC Thomson.
Handwritten tributes among flowers.
Thank you notes left as a tribute to Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral Castle.
Floral tributes
Tributes and flowers outside Balmoral.
Balloon shaped like a crown at Balmoral.
Tributes from locals.
Tributes and flowers outside Balmoral.
Flowers and notes have been left at the Banchory war memorial.
A portrait of Her Majesty lays amongst flowers.
A handwritten tribute from Keith.
Heartfelt tributes.
A Jubilee flag was laid out among the floral tributes.
Flowers at St Laurence Church, Forres Moray.
A Robert Burns poem amongst flowers.
A flower wreath dedicated to Her Majesty.
Floral Tributes at Balmoral Castle. Picture by Kami Thomson / DC Thomson.
A Paddington Bear tribute.
A flag showing Her Majesty over the years.
All the best pictures from the Queen's cortege in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire
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GALLERY: The most unusual and touching tributes to the Queen
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