Forget Hello! magazine and Hollywood starlets. This is the kind of bling we really love: crimson and gold, prancing horses, diamond tiaras, glass carriages. So much classier than an Oscar ceremony. It stirs feelings of pride and patriotism, not least because royal pageantry is one of the few things that Britain still does best. And it brings a brilliant flash of colour into a Northern European country that can often look grey.
Although in politics I am a moderniser, I am still at heart a monarchist. And there is no reason why the two should be incompatible.a
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