Today marks the first death anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II.

The thing that stood out for me during her funeral was that only two people read lessons for her ceremony, one of course was the then prime minister Liz Truss, but the other was Baroness Scotland, the Secretary General of the Commonwealth. That itself should give us an idea of how important a place the Commonwealth had in the Queen's mind.

So what is the Commonwealth and how important is the past to the future of the British monarchy?

While Louis XVI lost his head during the French revolution, and the Romanovs were brutally shot down by a firing squad, the British monarchy stayed calm and carried on.

How has the British monarchy managed to survive so long? This particular family in question has a heritage that goes back 1,200 years to Edward Longshanks or Edward I.

So who are they and how do they? As Little Britain would put it.