A red carpet leads to the ceremonial tree-planting, residents at The Grand care centre wear gold paper crowns and wave jubilee flags, God Save the Queen plays...and Her Majesty is hiding under a table.
If you ever wondered how the Queen might behave if she had no inhibitions and no sense of duty – if she could do exactly as she wished – meet Her Mini Maj, Isla Bates, aged three.
Wearing a coat dress of pink tweed (River Island), sparkly kitten heels (Monsoon), a pink wide-brim hat (Cancer Research charity shop) and family pearls (“my nana’s”) –plus a bouffant grey wig over her pigtails which she regularly removes because “it’s itchy” – Isla has recently taken on some of our monarch’s duties.
