Balmoral party for Jubilee tour end

The Queen will take a well-earned rest in the Highlands

The Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations come to an end today with a party at Balmoral.

The fourteen week tour has been judged an outstanding success by the Royal family with millions turning out for events across the UK.

So what do you make of the celebrations?

Has it changed your perception of the Royal Family?

Do you think they are a worthwhile institution?

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Breakfast spoke to Stephen Haseler, chairman of the Republican Society, and monarchist, Count Nikolai Tolstoy.

click here to watch Jennie Bond's interview with Peter Ord.

Our Royal correspondent Jennie Bond was at Balmoral where she spoke to Peter Ord: the Factor of Balmoral Estate

And antiques expert Eric Knowles was in the studio with a selection of Golden Jubilee memorabilia.

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Your emails

HM the Queen is a symbol of continuity and probity. She cannot be bribed or blackmailed, she is above politics and beyond the reach of big business. Despite the best efforts of some of our tawdry rags, she cannot be scandalised in the ¿press¿, and much to the chagrin of her detractors, she enjoys MASSIVE cross cultural and universal support from her subjects. Who would they have to replace her : President Beckham? God Save the Queen.
Bob

Openly debating the future of monarchy confirms democracy. The essence of our system is that our hereditary constitutional monarch, with reserved powers, enables action to dismiss an elected dictatorship and call upon the people to decide in a free election. Our monarchy is not a bar to freedom, it is its ultimate gaurantor.
Paul Coventry

Here's a scary thought for you. If we don't have a monarchy is the alternative President Blair? I know which I would rather have.
Pam Francis

I agree the monarchy should be abolished, but why is a president always suggested to replace them?This is dangerous personality politics.
Ron

Over the years the practice of us commoners to get your son a job because your father worked there, otherwise known as nepotism has been frowned upon. Consequently it is now taboo. If it is wrong for us it is also wrong for them. In the past few years the antics of the hangers on in the royal family shows that they are not fit to be rule. Let's get rid and be a republic.
John Murray

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Since May, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have visited 70 cities and towns in 50 counties throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The Queen, who at 76 is the oldest British monarch to have celebrated 50 years on the throne, has said she was "profoundly moved" by the affection shown to her.

The Queen thanked the public for their support

After the garden party, she and the duke, 81, will take a summer break in the Highlands.

Accompanied by members of the Royal Family, they will recharge their batteries ready for a 10,000-mile Golden Jubilee tour of Canada in October.

The Queen recently told an audience at the Guild Hall in Preston that the tour had been "a celebration of all that binds us together as a nation".

She thanked "everybody throughout the UK" for the "warmth of the welcome" she had been given.

On Monday the Queen attended the Edinburgh Military Tattoo, where she was greeted by Scottish First Minister Jack McConnell and Castle Governor Major General Robert Gordon.

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