The Queen with her Jubilee cake to celebrate the start of the Platinum Jubilee (Joe Giddens/PA)
(Picture: PA Wire)Is the Queen a Londoner? As we celebrate the beginning of her Jubilee Year, I’d say it’s time to ask the question. Notionally, she belongs to all the UK impartially. But she really belongs here. I have a particular take on this as the joint author of that groundbreaking work of social anthropology, The Sloane Ranger Handbook.
There’s a long-standing Sloane Ranger mindset — and Sloanes are important here as the most royal-worshipping of middle-class subjects — to maintain that they’re country people at heart, even if they spend five, or seven, days a week in a London postal district. You don’t get that vibe exactly from the Queen.
