Like many women whose relationships with their husbands have become dysfunctional, Diana used her elder son as both a stand-in and a buffer, toting him along for meetings with journalists. adapted from the book The Palace Papers, published 2022 by Penguin Books

I was pondering these things, when an incident, and a somewhat unexpected one, broke the thread of my musings.

I was still a two-striper (A2/c) I couldn't afford phone calls.

I’ll do the washing-up if you put it all away.