Honorary Fellowships, and an 800th Anniversary at Royal Holloway University.

Suzanne and I were lucky to be invited two nights in succession to the wonderful Royal Holloway University.                                                                                                                                                                        On Wednesday June 11^th, the occasion was the Honorary Fellows ceremony which took place in the beautiful chapel, where Professor Julie Sanders (Vice-Chancellor and Principal) and Rt Hon The Baroness Hodge of Barking DBE PC (Chair of Council) presided over the evening when four new honorary fellowships were awarded to Sarah Jane Chimbwandira, Father John Dickson SDB, Nicholas Perryman and Kehinde Ojo.

The following evening Suzanne and I were honoured to be invited to the Magna Carta 800^th anniversary dinner in the Picture Gallery at Royal Holloway, where 110 people were gathered to celebrate the sealing of the definitive and final Magna Carta in 1225. Ten years after the original version was sealed, this version was sealed consensually by Henry III and addressed to all people in the Kingdom and has endured ever since. The evening was arranged by the Runnymede Magna Carta Legacy Trust and huge thanks go to the Chairman, Paul Beck, and the rest of the Trustees for an excellent evening, including a wonderful musical interlude from the Royal Holloway Choir and an excellent speech from Lord Hannan of Kingsclere.