Letters: The Union with Scotland is safe, even without a new Cabinet minister – Telegraph.co.uk

Sussexes retreat

SIR The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are to be congratulated on the success of their retreat from the public eye.

The newspapers are full of it. We look forward to hearing details of their further retreat into privacy on March 4.

Brian SlaterEllesmere, Shropshire

SIR How can this young woman talk about her life as a royal? She didnt exactly put much into the role.

Sandra HancockStarcross, Devon

SIR If the Sussexes second child is born in America, it would be eligible to stand as president. Fingers crossed, we might get our 13 colonies back.

David GuessLetchworth, Hertfordshire

SIR Jan Etherington (Comment, February 18) writes as if she believes all moths are the enemies of her clothes.

In fact, of the 2,500 or so species found in Britain, only two the common clothes moth and the case-bearing clothes moth are a danger to natural fibres.

Most moths, like butterflies, are beautiful and harmless, and their caterpillars are strictly vegetarian.

Paul WinstanleyBraintree, Essex

SIR Having read accounts, by three daughters and a granddaughter, of the 9th Lord Hawkes despondency at the birth of yet another daughter by three of them and a granddaughter, will we be hearing from the rest of the family?

Jo-Ann RogersAlsager, Staffordshire

SIR Many years ago, the Prideaux boys sat in front of the Hawke girls in church. We could only muster four.

Julian PrideauxCoggeshall, Essex

SIR With five sisters and 10 female first cousins, my brother the 11th Lord Hawke almost had a death wish.

Every summer we went with our nanny to a boarding house in Westward Ho! One year he swung on a gas pipe and broke it, on another he sleepwalked out of a first-floor window and, on yet another, having been sent to his bedroom, he set fire to the curtains.

The 9th Lord Hawke may not have been blessed with a male heir, but he probably had a more tranquil life.

Nichola ForbesAlford, Aberdeenshire

SIR In 1516 Sir Thomas More wrote Utopia. In 2021 the British Medical Association has called for the near-elimination of Covid before any significant easing of restrictions (report, February 19).

What kind of cloud-cuckoo-land do these guys inhabit? We already live with reduced, tolerated exposure to other infectious killer diseases. We must learn to do the same with Covid.

Stuart AshtonWhitley Bay, Northumberland

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