Well I saw the Queen on the Hill yesterday but we didn't meet personally so the question of how to address her didn't come up. The crowds were stupendous, 400,000 by some accounts, answering a question I had about how many people on July 1 would be too many (100,000 would be more typical). By lurking with the huge crowds on the exit route I got to see Her Majesty within about 1.5 metres as she went by in the usual armoured limo with the three inch glass, and once safely past me in my UK , she even rolled down her window to give her trademark wave to everyone.

The local media coverage of Her Majesty's presence makes me suspect the political fix is in aganst the monarchy, since TV news had the crowd at a mere 75,000 and her speech from the ceremony was given perhaps 10 seconds of air time. For sure, from the conversations all around us, the threefold increase in crowd numbers involved people wanting to see Her Majesty on perhaps her last visit to Canada (but given her mother's record in old age, I suspect most people are underestimating HRM. I hope so anyway.)