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10 March 2021 • 12:02am The Queen and Prince Philip at Ascot. The Palace has issued a statement in response to the interview by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex Credit:  CARL COURT/AFP SIR – Following the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s interview with Oprah Winfrey, the Queen need not worry. The silent majority of the British public can see this affair for what it is. The monarchy is safe with Prince Charles, Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge. Nick Hazelton   SIR – The monarchy has existed since 927. It has survived 1066, the Hundred Years’ War, the Spanish Armada, Oliver Cro...

SIR – “The young face life-altering carnage,” writes Sherelle Jacobs (Comment, March 4). I started paying income tax in 1968, and until 2015 was helping the country to repay its First World War debt. I did not complain that I had to contribute to the cost of a war fought decades before I was born. My generation also had to pay off Second World War debt. That those now alive have to expect that the cost of fighting Covid to fall on our shoulders, spread over the years ahead, is natural, fair and sensible. Ralph Godley Lincoln SIR – The financial consequences of the pandemic seem to be...

Credit: pa/dominic lipinski SIR – I fear that my cousin, Professor Stephen Powis, national medical director of NHS England (Letters, February 19), is being disingenuous when he implies that NHS cancer treatment has been satisfactory during the pandemic. The statistics he cites do not reflect the misery that thousands of patients have suffered as a result of their treatments being postponed. I should know. My own treatment for prostate cancer was delayed by six months and wasn’t completed until nine months after diagnosis. The specialist hospital that provided my care was largely mothballe...

  SIR – I hope Vernon Bogdanor is right in saying that the Dunlop report on strengthening the Union, completed in 2019, is to be published at long last. I was assured again and again in the Lords that it would appear before the end of 2020. Some recommendations, I was told, were being put into effect. Why then the continuing secrecy on the part of a government that is supposed to be firmly committed to the Union? We have been cursed for too long by the policy of “devolve and forget”, as Professor Bogdanor says. It is erroneous, however, to say that in the past “devolve and forget” ...

13 February 2021 • 12:02am More than one in three ambulance staff have had Covid-19, most of them catching it while at work Credit:  Stefan Rousseau/PA SIR – I admire the attempts by Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, to reform the NHS to make it more responsive to the risk of future pandemics. He seems, however, to have rejected the Tories’ 1944 mixed private-state plan, flagged up by Allister Heath (Comment, February 11). This may be because we already have such an organisation. Local private hospitals have, for the second time in under a year, been taken over by the NHS, meaning th...