Emotional scenes at home this week, as it transpired we needed to break the news to our seven-year-old that it was unlikely – although, as I was eventually forced to concede, not entirely impossible – that the Queen will attend his school’s Jubilee Celebrations.
Yes, even though he’s made a special crown, and they’re baking a class cake. Crestfallen doesn’t even begin to cover it, although he is definitely still hoping she will swoop in at the last minute, like a superhero, to save his day.
My boy’s fully in the grips of the new variant that’s infecting the nation – Jubilee Fever. No-one, it appears, is immune.
