I recently had a royalty-related idea which is probably worth blogging about. I have no idea how to get it off the ground or how popular it would be, but wouldn’t it be cool if there was some kind of tribute or monument to the late queen up at the Olympic Park in Stratford? It is, after all, the Queen Elisabeth Olympic Park. More specifically, I reckon there should be some kind of commemoration of her famous entrance to the olympic opening ceremony eleven years ago: it was the highlight of the ceremony, and the part everyone remembers. In fact I would go so far as to argue that that was the moment that the queen earned most of our respect, by letting us know that she didn’t see herself as above things like James Bond and popular culture. What better way to pay tribute to our late queen and her sense of humour than to have a permanent monument marking that moment?

Mind you, I have no idea what this monument would look like: you can’t make a statue depicting two people parachuting out of a helicopter, can you? I just think it would be awesome if that moment was somehow physically marked at the olympic park as a way to remember both the Queen and what happened there in 2012.