Looking back on another dazzling day, what’s to especially remember asks royal correspondent Shirley Tart?

Blog: They wouldn’t have stood and waited like that for anybody else except his granny. That’s what one frank New Zealander said of crowds waiting to see a young prince pass by.

Blog: In many ways, it would be an inspired choice.

A well known and very telling claim says there will never be peace in the world until there is peace in Jerusalem.

You would think that no celebrity had ever been invited to a royal wedding before, writes Shirley Tart. But while the Beckhams may trail blaze in many things, not in this one.

Not for nothing has the Duke of Edinburgh just been named Oldie of the Year, writes Shirley Tart.

Blog: Talk about hypocrites of the week. Football and its supporters at the top level puts up with and even defends, the most outrageous behaviour from overpaid, not very bright players.

Blog: Saturday’s post-match ramblings into still-active microphones might have been laddish and inaccurate – suggesting that a female assistant referee didn’t know the offside rule – but let’s stop this slide towards further action and demands for sackings.

Blog: The past may be no place to live but we dismiss it at our peril.

Blog: More people are declaring that 60 is the new 40 and 70 the new 50, if you get my drift, while the very old homily that you’re only as old as you feel is regularly trotted out.

Blog: They’ve been described as being of biblical proportions. Australian floods sweeping 30ft deep through an area as big as France and Germany combined, are certainly beyond the comprehension of most of us and show once more how man and beast are totally at the mercy of the planet when it roars.

Less than a week ago most gifts weren’t wrapped, some not even bought. By Christmas afternoon one woman was on e-Bay flogging candlesticks given that morning by her sister-in-law and boasting about it.