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Jonathan Meades: Closing Time for the Firm

The LRB Podcast

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Is There a Difference Between a Royal Wedding and a Royal Funeral?

There's very, very little difference between a royal wedding and a royal funeral. The only difference is people wearing black rather than white. And it suggests that the mob isautonomous. It doesn't actually need, it only needs the slightest trigger to cind go into action,. throwing flowers in front of buckingham palace or kensington palacer, wherever.

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