READERS’ LETTERS
Anne Robinson’s knickers
SIR: I too was at school with Anne Robinson, a year below her, and wonder why her recollection of reading to the school while standing on a chair with her knickers showing is so often repeated in interviews (Getting Dressed, July issue).
As I remember it, the chair was like that of a tennis umpire and was sat on. Our skirts were below the knee and we wore big green over-knickers, known as passion-killers, which wouldn’t have alarmed a visiting bishop.
Still, I suppose it makes a good story. Julia Ashenden (née Ross Williamson), Woodbridge, Suffolk
Sergeant Wilson’s farewell
SIR: Ken Pyne’s cartoon (June issue) – a ‘NOT DEAD, JUST RESTING’ gravestone prompting a passer-by to say, ‘He was a
