Interesting. An extract:

“This 69ft (21m)-long piece of history, like a massive roll of wallpaper, includes 11,500 elegantly inscribed words, using specially made ink, and all written by calligrapher Stephanie von Werthern-Gill.

In an epic achievement of concentration, she says she kept going for 56 days, without any weekend breaks, determined to keep her rhythm going, phone switched off, her calm sustained by breathing exercises and classical music.

“All the right spelling?” joked the King, when he looked at the huge roll, which he said “goes on for miles”.

In fact, only a single dot over an i had been missing at the end, says the calligrapher, with no nightmare spelling mistakes discovered in the hand-stitched pages of copperplate writing.”

Needless to say, the focus in the BBC piece is on the forgetful Stephanie von Werthern-Gill, while less is written about the man who surely did work requiring far more skill, and didn’t make a mistake:

“It includes intricate illustrations by Tim Noad, who must soon be the country’s most widely viewed, but least well-credited, artist. Because as well as illustrating this historic document, he is the designer of the King’s cypher, the logo that you will begin to see on new banknotes, public buildings, uniforms and eventually on new postboxes.”

The fourth photograph in the piece is of Penny Mordaunt MP at the Coronation, the awful Conservative MP who almost ran out of the chamber of the House of Commons when the Speaker announced the next debate would be in commemmoration of International Men’s Day. After the Coronation much was made of Ms Mordaunt’s ‘strength’ in carrying the ceremonial sword, and most of the photographs in the media edited out the transparent matt plastic band which supported the sword’s weight. This photograph shows it. She’s hardly the natural successor to Boadicea, is she? God help us if she ever leads the Conservative party.

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