First up, let’s hear it for the ladies! For recent times it has - as ever one may argue - been the females of the pack who have been leading from the front. Much has been said about the Queen “stepping up”, being “front and centre” or “holding the fort” (add further hot key phrases here), but let us take a moment to examine the supporting cast on what has been the most extraordinary year for the Royal Family at large. Never one to let a crisis get in the way of a good engagement - 28 of them in