Royalty

Did you hear Prince Philip’s opening remark on arrival by air – ‘What a scruffy little airport this is – you’ve not done much in the last 5 years’! However, it’s obviously had effect and everybody is blaming everybody for not getting on with it.

Well, the highlight of the week was, of course, the Queen’s visit. No, I didn’t join the throng and stand 2 1/2 hours for a ‘close-up’. I was about 7 years old when the last Royal Visit took place but I remember it VERY well. My sister did a lovely scrap book of articles and pictures from magazines and papers… Although the rain was most welcome it could have waited 2 days. We had floods!!

We have been having a good nostalgic wallow this week via the TV coverage of your Jubilee. We enjoyed seeing the procession to St. Paul’s and back from Guildhall: and the Lord Mayor’s toast and the Queen’s reply at Guildhall I found moving – apart from admiring the technical excellence of both the speech-making and the TV. To be able to get near close-ups from the full length of the Guildhall calls for a pretty fantastic standard in the manufacture of this lenses for the cameras – and I can’t think how they manage to keep the cameras steady enough. Last night they showed us the bonfire lighting from Windsor and we enjoyed that too – the Queen looked so delighted with the whole proceedings.