Letter from the Queen!!

Well, how exciting was it this morning, when the Postman knocked on our door and doffed his cap as he delivered a letter addressed to Ollie, Max & Charlie Andrew, that was embossed with the EIIR symbol and post marked Buckingham Palace!

It was very hard waiting for the boys to come back from school/nursery to open it. I have never been so tempted to steam a letter open. It was so thick!

It was a lovely letter inside. It was really specific to what they had sent. It came with some really good leaflets about how the Queen spends her day, one about her pets and one about Buckingham Palace. In the one about her day it said the Queen views a good proportion of the items that have been sent into her before asking the office to reply. I like to think she really did see the gift and card we sent and maybe even that someone has actually hung them in the garden!

It caused such excitement in our household! The boys took the letter into school and ended up showing every class and every member of staff! 

Mum hunted out the letter I got back in 1986 and sent it up to us so the boys could see that too and they could be kept together, ready for the next generation to add to it!