Queen pops out to the shops

THOSE surprised that the Queen and her family aren’t commemorating the bicentenary of Queen Victoria’s birth on Friday will be relieved to hear that Her Majesty is to honour another Victorian institution today — Sainsbury’s, on its 150th anniversary.

Still a novice when it comes to supermarket shopping, the Queen will enjoy ‘a pop-up experience’ at London’s Covent Garden, where she can see everything from a recreation of the first stores through to self-service tills.

Her great-great-granny would surely be amused. I hope she remembers her Nectar card.