Well, Hallelujah. The prodigal son and his wife finally rejoined the in public yesterday – and everyone found something to laugh about.While the absence of from her own national service of had taken some of the shine off proceedings at St Paul’s Cathedral, the Archbishop of York, the Most Revd Stephen Cottrell, used his sermon to address the Sovereign as if she was there – knowing full well that she was watching on television.And he hit just the right tone as he used an equestrian analogy to sum up our horse-mad monarch’s record-breaking reign. Noting that the scriptures describe life as a race – and that we were just a day away from the Derby – the Archbishop observed: ‘Your long reign reflects the distance of Aintree more than the sprint of Epsom.’
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