Jubilee showed love for monarch

Sir, – Having never before watched the Queen’s Speech, I was aghast at the preliminaries with its pomp and ceremony, which bumped against the edges

of the bizarre in a country replete with foodbanks.

It was distasteful that the privileged should flaunt their privilege to such an extent in times so hard.

However, the occasion went on to show us our place, thanks to a long shot from the perspective

of the gathered Commons standing as they were at a great distance from the throne.

Seated in that great distance were the clergy and the Lords, all unelected and above those who were.

This made the leaders of the parties seem like

schoolboys who had sneaked into a show – hopefully unnoticed, free to look around in awe.

Sadly, our Queen was not there – only the crown as if it were a real person with a name like Jules Crown serving as ventriloquist to give voice to Prince Charles reading out the Queen’s Speech.

And given the support still shown to the Tories by the north of England in the council elections, it was every bit as draconian as expected.

Our viewing was not all bad. Next came the heartening jubilee, when the public once more showed their great love for our Queen.

May we think and hope she will reign for many more years to come.

Personally, born in 1945 to the widow of a mid-upper gunner of a Lancaster, it was highly emotional to see one soar over Buckingham Palace, while cheered by a crowd gathered together as one in their love for Queen and country – not all bad and bizarre then with having such a high note. Leslie Milligan. Myrtlehall Gardens, Dundee.

The Queen during her Platinum Jubilee celebrations.