Rhonald, I could not decide who was the most appropriate person to light it but the result surprised every, especially the bookmakers who returned the money placed in best on various choices.
Yes I heard about the bookmakers, having a spine, did the decent job of returning the bets on who was to be the candlemaker.
My memory has failed me because I remember twice seeing a Canadian presence in the shows opening, one being the Poppy. Its symbol because of the poem "
In Flander's Field" written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae. But I can not recollect the second time I uttered -
that's Canadian not British.
Alas, being Canadian, I always feel a kindred spirit to England as its traditions has shaped our country. I am not Anglo Saxon but feel that I am, maybe because of the Scarlett Red Tunic our RCMP wear, or maybe seeing the Queens profile on portraits on walls and our currency. During my cadet years I wore that old fashioned woollen Battle Tunic from the WW2 era - dam did it itch - so I believe I have England in my blood.
I liked the part of the speech where he referenced to being England as the birth place of the modern Olympics because of the spirit of fair play being codified.