How to recover from my latest hospital stay? Watch The Crown – twice, and remember a royal meeting of my own

As my latest stay in hospital came to an end, the second series of The Crown was just starting on Netflix. Since my prescribed formula for rehabilitation consisted mainly of the instruction just to lie there and shut up, I had nothing to do except maintain the horizontal position and watch the delightful Claire Foy plough onward in her role of Queen. I thought she coped nobly.

So nobly, in fact, that when th...nobly.