Serenade the Queen

THE Jubilee celebrations, from Trooping the Colour and the thanksgiving service to the parade, got seven out of ten from me.

The reason it didn’t score higher was due to the choice of performers at the Party at the Palace. Why did we have alicia Keys and Diana Ross when we have so much homegrown talent?

Where were Take That, Robbie Williams, shirley Bassey and Tom Jones? I’d have liked to hear Cliff Richard and Paul McCartney sing.

and instead of a poor version of sweet Caroline, Rod stewart should have serenaded the Queen with his hit, You Wear It Well.

PETER T. SMITH, Walsall, W. Mids.

Was it really Rod stewart ‘singing’ at Buckingham Palace or a bad tribute act?

Please, Penny Lancaster, stop him now and arrest him for crimes against music.

NICK STEVENSON, Norwich. WOW! The Jubilee dance of the drones during the Party at the Palace on saturday night was fantastic.

surely this spectacle spells the end of fireworks: no more pollution, frightening the wildlife or risk of injuries.

S. T. VAUGHAN, Birmingham. FOLLOWING the sussexes’ brief visit to these shores, I hope Prince Harry is satisfied that the Queen ‘has the right people around her’ — millions of us, in fact.

ISOBEL MACKAY, Bournemouth, Dorset.