I’m not what you’d call a Royalist, but for the last ten years I’ve always ended up trawling the honours lists when it comes out – waiting to see if a former boss who would have given anything for such an accolade finally gets his pilgrimage to the Palace. Once again there was no champagne at dawn in his household, but it’s actually lovely to see that Stephen Sutton MBE knew that he was being honoured for his triumphant fundraising achievement – raising £4.2m for the Teenage Cancer Trust. If these gongs are worth something, then his really was well deserved.

Great to see that HRH has also honoured Cerys Matthews for her melodic loveliness and honorary Welshman, Warren Gatland, for a champion job, A good omen for today’s match against the Springboks I hope…