Gloriana…
During this Jubilee week, I wondered why I am such a fan of the Royal Family and indeed why I am a constitutional monarchist.
It goes back to my childhood.
My grandparents established our family connection with the little seaside village in which stands House. My grandfather’s house, further toward the river, was where we all spent our childhood holidays until all we cousins diversified into our own cottages close by. We all live on the spit or by the ocean beach, funnelling out from Pa’s house, now my mother’s, like spokes on a wheel.