Sitting next to Lady Thatcher at the Queens 80th Birthday parade

That fellow on the horse is my brother-in-law, LtCol Toby Gray, commander of the Guards. Fine chap that he is, he gave me front-seat tickets to the Queens 80th - apparently the Foreign Secretary's (he couldn't go). Seats next to Lady Thatcher was the offer. Sadly, the greatest Prime Minister since Churchill was a few rows back - though I said hello as she walked by. She may be old and frail, but she looked pretty lucid to me despite some of the nonsense in the press.