PREMIUM Doug Maughan spotted this shop front in Leh, Ladakh. “It appears to be a messy joint,” he notes. THE Diary was sad to hear of the Duke of Edinburgh’s death. He was an often irascible, yet eminently relatable chap. Reader Stuart Swanston recalls that when Prince Philip was Chancellor of Edinburgh University in the 1970s he opened a new building in the Zoology Department. After unveiling a plaque he was shown round the labs, where he noticed a molecular biologist who, being an ardent republican, had boycotted the opening ceremony. This fellow was bent over a microscope, tweezers in hand.