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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectator's daily politics podcast.

I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by James Desiphon Fraser Nelson.

This is the day of the state funeral of the Queen.

James, we've had lots of world leaders attend today.

Liz Truss also gave a reading.

What were the main takeaways?

I thought the striking thing about the service was this obviously the service that the Queen herself had planned.

Was how I thought was fitting because it was it was all about her role.

Lots of funerals are often about the person.

This was about the role that the person had fulfilled and their fulfilment of their vow.

Give them the 21st birthday that their life would be given in service.

And I mean, it was in that this wasn't about the things that the Queen enjoyed doing or this or that.

It was about the constitutional function that she had performed with such dignity and a prom.

And I thought you also saw something else, which is something that Fraser's written about, which is the sheer number of world leaders.

Not just from the Commonwealth, but from other countries too.

I think it spoke to the fact that she has been such a global figure for 70 years that she was on the throne and the respect in which she is held.

And I think there was a kind of feeling that we were unlikely to see a monarch who rules for as long again, certainly not in any of our lifetimes.

So you held it, I think, a position of respect, not just in this country in the Commonwealth, but around the world.

Fraser, the period of mourning ends today and tomorrow we're expecting a return to politics.

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