Even royals need a break sometimes, and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge took advantage of the summer holidays to take their three children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, on a short staycation to the Isles of Scilly for the second summer in a row.
I’m in Istanbul having my gum stitches removed, so cannot resist sending my pen friend a photo of the bar where I’m staying with its fresco on the ceiling, and a snap of the outside of the hotel. He replies, ‘It doesn’t get much better than that.’