It’s nice to know that people are thinking of you when you are sick.
But as any invalid will know, there comes a point when the endless well-wishes can become a tad oppressive. So your sympathy, please, for King Charles and Princess Kate whose offices responded to a staggering 27,000 written messages of good wishes, following their cancer diagnoses.
To put that in some kind of context, Chat GPT reckons that were 27,000 standard sized envelopes laid end to end, they would stretch around Buckingham Palace 14.5 times.
