Duck is off

Duck is off

She has dispensed with the historic obligation owed to the Crown by the Seigneur of Trinity to present the Monarch with two deceased mallards whenever he or she visits the Island.

Instead, Jurat John de Veulle, the Seigneur of Augrès, and Emma Lemprière-Johnston, the Dame of Rosel, will attend the Queen as her butlers.

As their predecessors have for 800 years, they will welcome her to the Island and say goodbye when she leaves.

Traditionally, her lieges would warn her who she could trust and who she should treat with suspicion.

Mrs Lemprière-Johnston (39), the daughter of Mrs Raoul Lemprière-Robin, and the late Brigadier, now lives in London and is flying back for the occasion.

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