It’s something for a commoner from rural Mississippi to be in the presence of royalty, but I want you to know I was there. I shook hands with Prince Philip. And my wife Jeri was standing beside the Bishop of Kenya, when he was introduced formally to the Queen of England. It was the occasion of the reopening of Wesley’s Chapel in London in 1980. It was a great occasion and people from all over the world, Methodists from all over the world had come for that exciting event. I’ve never experienced anything like it really.

Following that worship service, at which the Queen of England was present, and this was the first time that a ruling monarch had ever stepped foot in a Methodist meeting house, the Prince was there too, having read or reading one of the scriptures in the worship service that…