LETTERS

Wedded bliss

Grumpy people say they have no interest in the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and won’t be watching it on television.

However, most people are fascinated with the royal Family and want to know more about these attractive, wealthy, influential and sometimes scandalous people.

When born into royalty, you are automatically famous, whether you like it or not.

There is nothing wrong with the public interest and support of tomorrow’s ceremony. It’s a heartening stream of colour in a drab and gloom-laden world. By watching it, people feel included in something monumental, important and larger than themselves. EMILIE LAMPLOUGH,

Trowbridge, Wilts. I am dismayed that the food at the royal wedding reception is to be served in bowls and that people will have to stand while they eat.

To help keep my weight in check, I never stand up to eat. You should treat every morsel like a banquet and sit down to savour the experience.

How will the guests cope with holding a bowl and a wine glass, and eating at the same time?

HELEN SIBBET, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

Lessons learned?

aNOTHer publicly quoted company goes to the wall, the directors walk off with millions, the auditors get a slap on the wrist, the regulators get a ticking off and the employees and shareholders are hung out to dry.

after censuring the culprits, politicians tell us lessons have been learned, no one is to be prosecuted and we all think it won’t happen again . . . until the next Lloyds, rBS, Bhs or Carillion. JAMES ROBERT-POULAIN,

Bexhill-on-Sea, E. Sussex.

Dambusters hero

The excellent articles marking the 75th anniversary of the dambusters’ raid have reminded me of the times I met Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, inventor of the bouncing bomb. I was a schoolboy at Christ’s Hospital School in West Sussex from 1957 to 1963, where he was a governor.

a kind and generous man, he was pleased to meet boys who wanted a service career. He was a pacifist who believed the most humane way to conduct warfare was to develop weapons that would end conflict as quickly as possible.

He designed airships, worked on the Wellington bomber and devised the Tallboy bomb that sank the German battleship, the Tirpitz.

When I asked him if he had felt like giving up in the early days of designing the bouncing bomb, he confided that his main problem was arrogant senior officials who attempted to thwart his efforts, but then tried to claim some of the praise when the dambusters’ raid was a success.

He spoke movingly of the crews who never returned and said there was never a day when his thoughts