Homemade signs on The Mall before the Royal Wedding:

‘Yes, I am a crazy Canadian – I have no tent!!!’ next to people on picnic chairs playing cards.

‘WILLIAM’s love CONQUERed CATHERINE and it’s GREAT’ by a group of twenty-somethings singing Jerusalem in Australian accents.

Hampshire Royalist Here’ in front of a woman in a bobble hat holding a coffee and looking grumpy.

‘CHECKMATE Kate you’ve taken the King!’ beside a family of four in sleeping bags.

‘Please Help Me’ scrawled in a notebook by a bearded miserablist who’s been there all night in a misguided attempt at book research.