ON the matter of whispers and gossip....

From 7/9/14

It is wonderful how the Royals bring out so much from the rest of us, when they are in the stands.

Who saw that Federer was playing clownily? He was obviously distracted. I had no idea.

He had no concentration at all except it be on the stands. But not the way the youngsters were… It was a sincere and new focus for the older champion. He was showing off in an infantile kind of way. It nearly seemed he’d been smitten by some bug of some sort.

I would stay on the courts for ten hours had I the lady Katherine to entertain in this way, he seemed to say.

Is she not amazing in her way of commanding the best and the worst out of a jousting couple of swashbucklers? They both were falling all over themselves and getting up, all the more intent upon giving their very best show for the woman who has stricken us all with fondness for her royal appearances and youthful attendance to pomp and circumstance. Perhaps, her husband taught her the decorum of silence and perhaps her rearing was great and intense. Whatever the combination of charm and beauty and royal ability, I blame her for the great match at Wimbledon, the other day. Who knows?

As Gidget’s grandmother said…”A real woman knows how to bring out the best in a man!”