THE Reverend Dr Jamie Hawkey, Canon Theologian of Westminster Abbey and a Chaplain to HM The King, goes off to put the kettle on. Through the windows of his sitting room I can see a magnolia tree flowering in a walled garden, where a narrow lawn now occupies a space where the chapel in which Henry III swore to uphold Magna Carta once stood. As well as piles of country magazines, the room is a sanctuary for books on Renaissance art. There’s a rugged landscape on the wall, alongside a photograph of his wife flying over a fence
