The last lazy Berkshire bee had long since sucked the sweetness from the spilled drops of champagne bedewing the grass of Bucklebury when The Sun excitedly reported online that the Duchess of Cambridge had drawn a picture of St Mark’s church, Englefield, for the front of the order of service for her sister Pippa Middleton’s wedding.

Ordinarily orders of service are old hat, but since low journalists were not admitted, and villagers were issued with wristbands lest they be taken for infiltrators, value accrued to any scrap from The Wedding, as it was known. As Valentine Low put it in The Times, “according to Church of England traditions a wedding service is a public ceremony, and all parishioners are entitled to attend”. But that doesn’t mean everyone was invited.

A few readers wrote to my paper, saying they did not want to read one more word on the subject. That compared to the millions who read every word they could, much of it online, before, during and after.