The news of Queen Elizabeth's death shocked and saddened the world on Thursday (UK time).
The Queen died aged 96 at her home in Balmoral, Buckingham Palace announced on Thursday (local time).
"The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon," the family said. "The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow."
The entire globe is mourning the Queen, who was Britain's longest-reigning monarch.
The news was broken on Thursday afternoon in the UK with many media outlets breaking into their programmes to share the tragic news.
In New Zealand, AM broke into programming shortly after 5:30am with a breaking news special.
Watch a collection of how the news was broken by news and officials above.
