A tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

‘We join the rest of the United Kingdom and the world in mourning the loss of our sovereign, HRH Queen Elizabeth II. On behalf of our practice, we send our sincere and deepest condolences to her family.

There will be much written about Her Majesty’s lifetime of devoted public service and her legacy that has shaped so much of Britain and the lives of her people. But she also touched us as a firm through her passion and interest in gardens and the outdoors. She met and chatted with our team who worked on the Commonwealth Games in 1998, similarly the earlier Garden Festival in Liverpool and more recently opened the Senedd Cymru in Cardiff, Wales, and the £842 million Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, which was renamed in her honour.

We are deeply saddened by the loss that we share with our entire nation, but we are equally grateful for having had the privilege of a monarch who has been an exemplar to the world and has been loved by so many of her people over several generations. We will greatly miss her.’

Jim Diggle, Managing Partner at Gillespies