LETTERS

A ROYAL BOOST FOR OUR CAUSE?

It has always been reassuring that the shooting, hunting and fishing community could see that the House of Windsor also upheld the tenets of our way of life.

We are being attacked from many directions for what we do, and the good that comes from our hands-on care of the environment is energetically pushed aside. The campaign figureheads we see in the media all present us as villainous despoilers and not the caring custodians of the countryside we enjoy and nurture.

Now we hear that Prince George, at such a formative age, finds himself depressed [after watching Sir David Attenborough’s new film about extinction] and is possibly traumatised by exposure to the gloom and doom expounded in the media.

Having brought up a family that