Ephraim Hardcastle

GIVEN the recent disclosure of the shameful treatment of some of the Windrush generation, shouldn’t a royal have attended Friday’s Westminster Abbey service? The Queen, head of the Commonwealth, was at Royal Ascot. But last year she managed to open Parliament and be back at Windsor to change and take part in the Ascot carriage procession. Charles, who has been anointed the next Commonwealth head after much arm-twisting by his mother, went to Salisbury. The Commonwealth’s new youth ambassador, Prince Harry, was in Lesotho. Those in the abbey had to make do with the Queen’s representative in London, LordLieutenant Sir ken Olisa.