The Duke and Duchess of Sussex attended the service at St Paul’s but there was no escaping the reality of their changed royal statusThe show must go on. Shorn of its star, missing the very person who is at the centre of the nation’s thoughts this weekend, the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee rolled on regardless yesterday with a service of thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral while the Queen remained at home in Windsor. Although her absence was keenly felt, it took the Archbishop of York to let the Queen know that it did not matter. In language that she more than anyone would appreciate, he told her: “You are still in the saddle.”SponsoredEven if the Queen missed the service — just as Queen Victoria did not make it to St Paul’s for her own Diamond Jubilee in 1897 because she could not manage the steps — she at

Source: The Times June 04, 2022 17:04 UTC