At the most British of occasions beside a long trestle table festooned with Union Jack napkins and cups of tea sits a Dutch woman who feels completely at home.
Aged 83, Channa Clein is a contemporary of the Queen, like so many who joined her today for a very special Jubilee celebration in Her Majesty’s honour.
As the Queen’s peers, they were keen to celebrate warmly beneath floral bunting. But this party was special because, organised by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, of which Her Majesty was a founding patron, it was also a thank you from them to her realm - which, many feel, they owe their lives, and those of their children and grandchildren; a future generation which might never have been.
