Special newspaper editions celebrate the Golden Jubilee and whether royalist or republican in editorial inclination all see events as a success for both monarchy and people.

Front page photographs show crowds and flags in a packed Mall, a red-white-and-blue flypast over Whitehall and the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh in the gold state coach.

"Gratitude, respect and pride" runs the Times' headline, using the Queen's words as she described what the commemoration, the UK and Commonwealth people meant to her. The newspaper's editorial observes that "jubilee celebrations have surpassed all expectations".

The Telegraph regards the weekend's events as a "national triumph".

The Express sees the warmth of the popular response as the true success of Jubilee. "More than protocol, more than the machinations of Palace spin doctors, this is what matters most: that the royals are a family that we are proud to have reign over us."

After a period where the "House of Windsor has had its tribulations", the Mail finds the continuity of monarchy reciprocated in the affections of a grateful nation.

The other tabloids see the weekend as strengthening the institution of monarchy.

"The monarchy is assured for another two generations. That is not something that could have been said two years ago," decides the Mirror.

For the Sun "a challenge... for the politicians, those in public service, the media and Brits up and down the country" is to maintain the sense of national unity and put "the cynics in their place".

The Independent also believes that the celebrations countered British cynicism and calls on the country "to shed inhibitions" about national pride. "We can be English (or Scottish, or Welsh or Irish) and British and European and proud of it," ends its editorial.

The Guardian pays tribute to "a spectacular jubilee" and the personal qualities of the Queen but argues that questions still need to be asked about the institution's constitutional future. "A good person, yes, but a lousy system," the newspaper leader says.