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“We have been a good offensive team at times this year, but we have been inconstant of late,” Lawson said.

To Putin, it was clear that might made right - and a weak and inconstant West would huff and puff, but ultimately back down in the face of a determined will.

The length of her reign made her "the one constant in an inconstant world", The New York Times said.

If Elizabeth was the glue that held the whole thing together — if she was the one constant in an inconstant world — what will happen to Britain now that she is gone?

On Friday morning, it seemed that in a brief couple of hours we saw most of the repertoire of lunar changes memorialized in Shakespeare by Juliet’s reference to “the inconstant moon.”