I never met her but even having The Queen wave to me meant so much, says JAMES WHALE

I NEVER met Her Majesty, but she did wave at me some years ago when I lived in North Yorkshire. Her Majesty was going to give the Maundy Money out in Ripon Cathedral, and as I lived on the main road leading to the town, she passed my house on the way. A day earlier, the police and security turned up. They were looking in the hedgerows and checking the drains.