While Obiter will be having a quiet word with the postman about the strange non-arrival of a Royal Wedding invite, there is some comfort in the knowledge that there is another exciting royal event – with plenty of bells – in 2012.

Next year will be Ma’am’s Diamond Jubilee, and naturally she wants her carriage to pass within sight of Chancery Lane-based Obiter Towers – and the rest of London’s legal quarter – on her way to celebrate in the City.

To mark the occasion, Fleet Street church St-Dunstan-in-the-West is raising £200,000 to install a new ring of 10 bells in time for the big day. It will be the only ring of 10 in the City.

With legal London pressing in hard around the City’s walls, appeal secretary Dickon Love (pictured) hopes lawyers will be keen to sponsor a bell, perhaps opting to have the name of a deceased loved one cast into it.

‘This is about the only way to have someone commemorated by name in a church. You can’t have a plaque, a memorial or a burial any more,’ he laments.

Any sponsoring lawyer will have the satisfaction of knowing their bell sounds better than the one our lawmakers have down the road.

‘Big Ben is cracked,’ Love sniffs, ‘and it doesn’t even swing’. For more details, see the Dunstan site