The Court Circular can have the same soothingly hypnotic effect as the shipping forecast
The precision of precedence
The punctiliousness of the wording
The dimly glimpsed significance of the rituals
Sometimes I find myself wondering: Why do they do that?
Why do ‘Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Slovenia’ and the ‘Governor of Anguilla’ kiss hands upon their appointment, but not the ‘British High Commissioner to the Republic of Malta’
Is it to do with sex? (Guess which one is a woman)
Or some deeply significant, though obscure, constitutional point
