◆ I WONDER

if environmentalist Prince William has been swotting up on flooding? I only ask because records show that his new home, Adelaide Cottage in Windsor, is on the edge of a floodplain and at high risk of being deluged should the Thames burst its banks. The local council warns that nearby land suffers ‘relatively frequent flooding’.

When Palace sources said Wills and Kate were leaving London to escape ‘the Kensington Palace fishbowl’, I don’t think they had this in mind!