RIGHT from the very start, let me lay my cards on the table: I think the world of the Queen. Of course, I am not alone. There are millions, literally millions, of people who think as I do. But my steady devotion goes right back to a double-decker wooden pencil box with a sliding top, a stencil of Her Majesty on it and my name inked on to the reverse, dating back to Coronation Day in 1953. The...