Buckingham Palace have opened a summer exhibition marking the 60th anniversary of the Commonwealth, with a display of the stuff she and HRH have been handed over the years, the clothes she wore. As to th e latter, the couture doesn’t seem to have changed since 1953 when she became head of the Commonwealth, if the waistline has, but the gifts… ‘Oh darling, do look. It’s… a lacquered crocodile’. There are also fabulous gems in imaginative jewellery, and nice selections of boomerangs and things me from rocks. But the nicest, for me, is a bus a couple of feet long made out of scraps of metal, given to her by the Pakistani High Commissioner’s drivers in 1997. It’s brilliantly painted, and on one side they’ve portrayed HM looking suspiciously like Mrs Gandhi, and her consort as nothing so much as the villain in Slum Dog Millionaire.