5 things we learned this week

1 BEER in Tudor England was more potent than most historians had thought. With soldiers in Henry VIII’s army entitled to eight pints a day, it was assumed that the alcohol content had been relatively low. But having recreated a typical 16th Century brew, researchers found it would have been five per cent alcohol. Dr Susan Flavin, from Trinity College Dublin, explained: ‘The basic insight is that many people during Tudor times probably were inebriated a lot of the time.’

2 NIGEL LAWSON, who died last week aged 91, was exceptionally proud of his successful campaign in 1979 to abolish exchange controls – which strictly limited the amount of money Britons could hold in foreign currencies. When he was Chancellor, he delivered his Budgets wearing a specially designed Bank of England tie with the inscription ‘EC 1939-1979’.

3 DONALD TRUMP’S nemesis, Stormy Daniels (born Stephanie A. Gregory Clifford), created her stage name based on her love of the US rock band Motley Crue, whose bassist had called his daughter Storm, and her tipple of choice, Jack Daniel’s whiskey, according to ex-Tory MP Rory Stewart on The Rest Is Politics podcast.

4 MORE than 1,000 passengers are due to embark in the autumn on a threeyear round-the-world cruise. The 137,700-mile trip – costing from £73,260 a ticket – will visit 375 ports across 135 countries and all seven continents.

5 APO Whang-Od has become Vogue magazine’s oldest cover star at the age of 106. The tattoo artist, from a remote village in the Philippines, appears on the front of the April edition of her country’s version of the magazine. ‘We felt she represented our ideals of what is beautiful about our Filipino culture – and believe the concept of beauty needs to evolve,’ said the magazine’s editor-in-chief.

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