Quotes of the day

“I don’t think you can have any actual idea of what the royal family are really like from how they are portrayed in the papers. If anything, I feel sorry for them because it must be an odd position to be in.”

Actor Hugh Skinner, who plays the Duke of Cambridge in the TV comedy series The Windsors.

I was thrown out of the school choir because my voice was too deep. And my singing teacher just went: ‘Oi, Old Man River: out’.”

Kirsty Young, presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs.

“It is time snuff snuffed it.”

Lib Dem MP Tom Brake wants an end to the free snuff available to MPs as they enter the chamber.

“In the heat of the moment, I did a bad thing.”

Russian tennis star Daniil Medvedev, 21, apologising for throwing coins at the umpire at the end of his Wimbledon match, after he disagreed with some of her calls.

“I don’t think there were that many. But I definitely have taken home a few, both in my belly and in my bags.”

Johanna Konta on the plague of flying ants at Wimbledon.