Derek Mooney

So he would certainly have control of the editing.

But a draft would then go to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, would go to the embassy.

But a lot of these things happen in parallel.

It isn't in sequence.

It isn't as if there's one draft and that goes over.

There would be probably two or three drafts gone separately.

But the core draft, the principal one, the master one, would be the one held by Buckingham Palace.

That's a very good question.

And if you look at the American history, if you look at American presidential, we know that Ted Sorensen, John Favreau, Peggy Noonan, we know who the speechwriters are.

In the case of the royal family, in the case of even the British prime ministers, we don't really identify them.

the speechwriter.

So we don't know who those personalities are.

So you have to assume that a large element is the people themselves.

I think there's only really Charles Crawford who was ever seriously identified as a major speechwriter, and that's back in the 1990s.

Absolutely.

But it's also interesting to note how different it is from his mother.

That this would be a completely different speech if this was Queen Elizabeth delivering it.

She probably would have been loads to go as far as he went.

But you're absolutely right.

He's a very good off-the-cuff speaker.