The British are clearly not as deferential as they once were, but this was something else. Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie were met Friday with a loud and sustained chorus of boos as they arrived at St. Paul’s Cathedral for a service to mark Queen Elizabeth’s platinum jubilee. Thousands of hard-core royalists were gathered outside the London landmark for one of the key jubilee events—not normally a tough crowd for a Conservative prime minister. But Johnson’s famed ability to defy political gravity appears to have deserted him. Stunned by the boos, BBC presenter Jane Hill said: “That was quite a moment. We definitely haven’t heard that for any other VIP guest.” Guest pundit Prof. Anna Whitelock, a royal historian, added: “I did not see that coming.”