PRINCESS SURPRISE FOR MP

AS AN MP and, until last week a minister, Greg Hands has visited plenty of schools. Every single time, at least one child asked if he had met the Queen. ‘Once, I turned the tables and asked the class if any of them had met the Queen,’ he reveals.

‘All of them put their hands up. I didn’t notice until much later that Princess Charlotte was in the class.’ The seven-yearold was a pupil at Thomas’s School in Battersea, London, before she started at Lambrook prep school in Berkshire last week.