For more than half a century, Katharine Kent has been by the side of her husband, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, the last surviving first cousin of the late Queen Elizabeth.
The Labour party is not very good at electing prime ministers but it is very good indeed at electing House of Commons Speakers. Lindsay Hoyle is the fourth in a row to have been a Labour member, though it should be noted that John Bercow was nominally a Tory when he was installed and didn’t
Sir Patrick Moberly, who has died aged 95, was a formal, old-school diplomat whose career culminated in two of the most sensitive postings for a British ambassador: to Israel and South Africa.