I was once walking past Buckingham Palace when something was going on with a precession of cars. I said to my friend 'Not sure what's going on here, but looks interesting'. Then an Australian tourist turned round to me and said 'You're English and you don't know what's going on!?' to which I replied 'I may be English, but I live 200 miles from here and the Queen isn't something we keep an eye on a daily basis.'