Faces of the week

Actor Kate Winslet gave an inspirational speech telling children to stand up to bullies. “They called me Blubber,” she said of her own schooldays. “Locked me in the cupboard. Laughed at me. I wasn’t the prettiest. I was even told that I might be lucky in my acting if I was happy to settle for the fat-girl parts.” “Be indestructible,” she urged, “and believe that you are worth it.”

Bear Grylls said Eton didn’t prepare him for life. “I wish they’d taught me how to keep fit, eat healthy food, lead a team, communicate with people,” said the SAS man turned TV star. “This is a man who makes his living sledging down the Amazon on one leg while wrestling an anaconda,” wrote The Times’s Robert Crampton. Could any school could equip you for that?

Never mind “the fascist regime” – Sex Pistol John Lydon would “sorely miss” the royal who inspired his band’s famously-cynical song, God Save The Queen, if she weren’t here. “It’s not her fault she was born into a gilded cage,” he said, adding: “I love all the pageantry, too. I loved that last wedding ... when the planes flew over the palace.”