The ever growing floral tributes in Green Park for HM The Queen. Staff remove the cellophane and rubber bands from the flowers before you get near where they are laid, and offer you the sachet of plant food. The smell, the quantity and the occasion was overpowering. I asked Carole if she thought there was more than Dianna got and a lady who over heard me replied “Oh yes, hugely more so.”
We did say that after all of the years that she reigned, all of the good that she did, all of her service to the country, it’s somewhat strange that she appears to now be best remembered for having tea with a bear from Peru.
