‘I do hope you can all see me today from where you are’
It would not, said the Queen, be a year on which she would look back with undiluted pleasure. In fact, 1992 had turned out to be an ‘annus horribilis’.
Her Majesty went on to tell guests at a Guildhall luncheon in the City of London, ‘I suspect that I am not alone in thinking it so. Indeed, I suspect that there are very few people or institutions unaffected by these last months of worldwide turmoil and uncertainty. This generosity and whole-hearted kindness of the Corporation of the City to Prince Philip and me would
