Like Alice Renton (Letters, 27 April), I have found the coverage of the royal family for the past few weeks most distasteful. The Guardian should cover more exciting developments regarding stamps, spoons, carriages, bellringers, concerts, crown jewels and so on, rather than exposing the unearned wealth of an unelected ruler.
Richard Wetherell
London
• Your article (Jess Cartner-Morley’s forever fashion: ‘I’ve had this dress 21 years. When I say “this old thing”, I mean it’, 27 April) reminded me that I have a sweatshirt I bought from the Body Shop that had “Now you see them, soon you won’t ... ” on the front, and “extinct is forever” on the back. I wore it when pregnant with my first child. I still wear it. He’s 33 this year.
Sue Kellaway
Highcliffe, Dorset
• My favourite use of language in a school report (Letters, 27 April): “He was beaten of his rightful place by one.” I had come second from bottom in my Latin class.
Ian Garner
Keighley, West Yorkshire
• My son’s maths report in the 1970s read: “He brings an unwarranted creativity to this subject.”
Mike Peacock
East Meon, Hampshire
• Suella Braverman is right (Report, 27 April). The values of those arriving on small boats are at odds with our country; they are undoubtedly far higher than those of many in government.
Dr Frances Dawbarn
Lancaster
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