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The opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games has begun, the ringing of a giant bell made especially for the games ushers in what promises to be a quirky three-hour journey through British culture and history.
An extraordinary – surreal, even – event happened at Buckingham Palace when Her Majesty The Queen made herself available for a few short hours to appear in a film sequence alongside another British icon, James Bond, 007.
Although not a drama in the conventional sense, “Happy and Glorious”, as conceived by Danny Boyle, has a gentle narrative which sets up the Queen’s arrival at the stadium for the opening ceremony.