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    READERS’ LETTERS

    Aug 25, 2021 4 minutes

    The Oldie, 23–31 Great Titchfield Street, London, W1W 7PA letters@theoldie.co.uk To sign up for our e-newsletter, go to www.theoldie.co.uk

    Anne Robinson’s nuns

    SIR: Julia Ross Williamson (Letters, July issue) complains – again – about my harmless anecdote about Farnborough Hill Convent where we were both boarders.

    Accounts may vary.

    This includes my view that the nuns too often passed on their fault-finding and pickiness and only a few of us escaped with our sense of irony intact.

    Anne Robinson, Gloucestershire

    Nott correct

    SIR: Re: Sasha Swire’s father (July issue, page 33): Nott, not Knott.

    Yours,

    Roger Scowen, Hampton, Middlesex

    I guarded Speer, too

    SIR: The article ‘I guarded Albert Speer’ (July issue) is inaccurate in the writer’s claim to be ‘the last person

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