Sunday, June 13, 2010

Thanking the servants

It is perhaps only those of us who can remember the resignation of Harold Macmillan & the subsequent row over whether the Queen had acted properly, according to the constitution, in appointing Lord Home, rather than Rab Butler, to be prime minister who can perhaps appreciate what a great relief it must have been all round that the transition to our new coalition government went so smoothly from that point of view. And why it will have meant a lot for the Queen, at her own request, to make a visit to the Cabinet Office to express her thanks.

(Note: Watch for the lady in the blue dress in the opening section of the BBC video)