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.
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