DO Charles and Camilla

really have three marital bedrooms? A His, a Hers and what Morecambe and Wise would no doubt call a Whay Hey Hey Room?

Well, I really hope they do. How sensible. How marvellous. How useful. How pleasant. Who among us would not love it?

For older couples no longer feel the need to cling together like shipwrecks in the night. We need our space, the luxury of being able to read our books without complaint, the freedom to potter about at 3am should one feel like it, the ability to give in to the urge for a soothing midnight knit, should the mood arise.

Of course, having three spare bedrooms in both your main residences is all about affordability rather than intimacy, but I hope it gives ideas to parents with newly empty nests. Never underestimate the deep, deep peace of the double bed. In the next room.