ANSWERS

1) A: While filming legal drama Suits in Canada, Meghan was said to be a regular at Toronto’s W SkinCare spa. Its director, Jeff Eltom, revealed her favourite treatment was the cold laser therapy, to ‘stimulate cellular renewal, boost collagen production and repair the skin’s moisture barrier’.

2) D: It had been assumed that Japanese macaques sought out hot springs simply to keep warm. But scientists at the Primate Research Institute at Kyoto University discovered they also do so to destress.

3) False: It was Phil Hammond and Michael Mosley, authors of Trust Me I’m A Doctor.

4) 1C: George III sealed Cheltenham’s reputation for R&R among the upper classes when he visited in 1788 after suffering ‘a pretty smart bilious attack’.

2A: Princess (later Queen) Anne visited Bath several times, including after one of her miscarriages, as the waters were thought to cleanse and fortify the womb.

3B: Mary, Queen of Scots — despite being Elizabeth I’s prisoner — petitioned for permission to be taken to Buxton, where the waters had a reputation for healing.

4D: Queen Victoria gave Leamington Spa its ‘Royal’ prefix in 1838 after enjoying many visits there.

5) B: The off-duty policeman noticed one of his fellow naked sauna-goers was a fugitive wanted for drugs offences and gave chase. Christoffer Bohman, deputy chief of Rinkeby in Stockholm, noted: ‘This was as strippeddown as it gets.’

6) False: These were, in fact, recommended in 1843, in the book Five Minutes’ Advice On The Bath Waters, which claimed that they, among other things, were ‘a safe and certain remedy’.

ETAN SMALLMAN