I think my encounter was altogether more brief. I’m not a big royalist, but she was opening somewhere I worked. The royal family must think the world smells of paint. Everywhere they go has just been done!Me too. Not a tall girl but affable. Met her dad once too - bit lively, likes his own turn of phrase but did make two incisive remarks which I still recall. One was on the inherent qualities that Chinese characters had as enduring metadata: "English is a spoken language that (changes and) is written, but Chinese is a written language that is spoken". The other was the need he had to preserve the content of all of the movies he had made.