In Memory of the Queen

Watching the Queen taking her last journey down Constitution Hill brings back a strange memory.

My strange memory was at ten o’clock one morning on Hyde Park Corner. I know it was ten o’clock because that was the time I always turned up for work at 105 Piccadilly. We normally “worked” until ten o’clock at night so we allowed for this by missing the Rush Hour on the Piccadilly Line.

I made my way up the escalator then up the stairs to emerge just by the gates into Hyde Park opposite the Duke of Wellington’s house.

The whole of Hyde Park Corner was empty! I could see nobody when I looked across to Constitution Hill. I was alone in a place which was normally full of noisy cars and buses at this time of a morning.

I was about to step over the road to the Duke of Wellington’s House when I espied something across the road approaching me up Constitution Hill. It was a line of cars driving fairly fast across Hyde Park Corner towards my position by the gate into Hyde Park.

It was a sunny warm day so most of the cars were open to the sun. But what surprised me most was, in one of the cars was the Queen accompanied by a number of other people whom I didn’t recognise. The other cars were of no concern to me but what should “one” do when faced by my Queen?

The problem was solved by Her. She looked my way and waved!

So I lifted my hand and managed a fairly pathetic answer to her very assured Royal wave as her car swept by.

And then they were gone heading towards the Household Cavalry Barracks leaving me with my Queen memory.

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