‘Everyone loved her’: memories of the Queen in Wales at a 96-round salute

As the guns fired at Cardiff Castle, well-wishers speak of what the monarch meant to them

First in the queue at Cardiff Castle to bag a good spot for the 96-round gun salute was Sara Rees, a 56-year-old radiographer, who waited patiently in the drizzle with her cockapoo, Teddy.

Like many who attended, she had her own personal royal memories. I first saw the Queen in 1977 at the time of her silver jubilee," Rees said. She came to Neath when I was 11. She opened a leisure centre, visited a factory and then she went to Margam Park. We all had a day off school and went and saw her. Everyone loved her.