Esther Addley discovers that sharp elbows are the weapons of choice for position-protecting royalists
One doesn't choose to spend the night on the pavement, wrapped in a union flag and wearing a Burger King cardboard crown, for the quality of the rest, and so the huddled forms stretched out on the Mall were in no position to complain about the impromptu bursts of God Save the Queen, some time before 5am.
What does matter a great deal, however, is the view. And so any attempt to step over an occupied sleeping bag and into a prime spot was policed ferociously by the early arrivals on behalf of their neighbours.
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