Saturday
To Westminster Abbey for the Coronation of Charles III and to swear my allegiance (provided he keeps his hands off the Ancient Liberties of Rutland, of course). I also swore at his mother’s Coronation, but only because the Duke of Norfolk trod on my heel after I offered some pithy observations on the XI he had selected to play the Australians in their tour opener at Arundel that year.
The Duke was a left-footer. I don’t mean he was a Roman Catholic (though he was, as are many of my friends - including the Pope, incidentally): I mean that he trod on me with his left foot.
A woman called Mad-Aunt appears as a warrior princess – I don’t recall any such character in 1953, though the first Lady Bonkers did hurry from rehearsing Brünnhilde at Covent Garden to join me at George V’s Coronation. I am relieved this time that no one has given Liz Truss a sword: she would surely have taken out the Archbishop of York, two page boys and the gospel choir.
Lord Bonkers was Liberal MP for Rutland South West 1906-10.
Earlier this week...
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A reader DMs me on Twitter:
Not wishing to ruin a good story but I reached for the 1954 Wisden ... It looks like the Duke of N may have been too busy to host the Aussies so they played a one day 13 aside match at East Molesey 23rd April before going to Worcester. But the Duke of Edinburgh found time to turn up.
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