Patrick your majesty it's so kind of you to come it's really not far are you still just around the corner at Wellington Barracks I am and you still traveling up and down the country recruiting for all the regiments from all the top schools that's me hi gather you saw the first lady I did it recently who Mrs Kennedy Margaret mentioned it did she yes so how was that Pleasant enough uneventful you know how it is at the radav vills no I don't well the food's always good yes but I wasn't asking about the food I'd like to know what was said Patrick we grew up together and we've always had a very Frank and a very open relationship yes ma'am yes so let's not break the habit of a lifetime all right what I ever heard the first lady say and I should mention I was several places along the table it's possible that I misheard was that she found Buckingham Palace second rate dilapidated and sad like a neglected provincial hotel and that one came away with a sense of a tired institution without a place in the modern world I see and did she have anything to say about me Patrick I was at the other end of the table but the words I think I overheard were but in our head of state we had a middle-aged woman so incurious unintelligent and unremarkable but Britain's new reduced place in the world was not a surprise but an inevitability well we must have her again soon [Music]