The King and Queen visited Liverpool last week. A trip to the M&S Bank Arena, where the Eurovision Song Contest will be hosted later this month, then on to the grand Central Library.
Everything, unsurprisingly, passed without incident. People in this city are proud to showcase all that is good about their home, especially so when members of the royal family visit. The respect is mutual, the feelings are warm.
All over Liverpool this weekend, plenty will be sitting down to watch the pageantry and pomp of the coronation and will celebrate the official start of the New Carolean era.