PHOTOGRAPHY BY FRANCESCA WEBER-NEW
Report by Katie Greengrass
It was the moment we’d been waiting for all week for. Not Christopher Kane’s awesome appliqué frocks, nor Burberry’s schmooze-ingly stellar front row. Not even a sighting of La Wintour.
It was this morning when, after a tip off from security, The LFW Daily team assembled at Somerset House Embankment Entrance poised for a royal visit from none other than her majesty The Queen. Savvy, we thought, that she would choose the MAN day to attend when there’s hot boys aplenty. Would she be sitting front row to cast a few new butlers?
After a flurry of squeals and eeks (should we bow? Does one say ‘Your Royal Highness’ or a more fashion friendly ‘alright Liz?’ when greeting Her?) and what seemed like a lifetime, a shiny red Rolls Royce drove up the embankment… and straight past us.
So it seemed our tip off had been a wild card. HRH hadn’t donned her best pastel two-piece to come down and congratulate our fine British designers after all. Rather, it was the RNLI, who were the port of call for good ol’ QE2.
Gawd bless yer, Ma’am.
