Together at last!

From the fact that it was the first item on all of yesterday's television news broadcasts, and from the portentous tones of the presenters, one might have thought that the epoch-making reconciliation being celebrated was between the two Koreas, or the Israelis and the Palestinians.

But no. The depressing Windsors and the appalling Spencers are friends again! It was time to wheel out Our Royal Correspondents to express the deferential excitement we all feel on such important occasions. There were the two families, actually SHAKING HANDS with each other! Did we know they hadn't appeared together in public for years? Did we care? Had we been fretting about the recent breach in the happy relations they had enjoyed for generations?

But it was a pleasing and very English scene. The Serpentine sparkled in the sun, little children - many of them non-royal - splashed about in the tumbling waters of what looked like a rather chic sewage farm, and, best of all, the Queen was wearing one of her very large and complicated hats.
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