Crowds at Buckingham Palace
(Picture: Jonathan Kanengoni)The crowds, respectful and good-humoured in front of the Palace; the flowers – for every other person in the vast throng from Hyde Park Corner to the Mall had a bunch; the (mostly) orderly queue of people waiting patiently in an enormous queue to pay their respects: you know what it all reminded me of?
Yep, the enormous gathering of mourners who came to pay their respects to Princess Diana, when it seemed like London thronged around Kensington Palace. That was 1997. Twenty-five years on, it’s the same spectacle, only this time it’s for the Queen.
