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H.times have changed! In 1798, my ancestor William Summers was one of 20 children of farm workers who were the first to be vaccinated by Edward Jenner against smallpox. Only after they survived, the Earl of Berkeley put his family on trial. Now, celebrities and royalty will show us the vaccine is safe (the NHS will enlist “sensitive” celebrities to get people to get the coronavirus vaccine on November 29).
Margaret Thorpe
Shrewsbury, Shropshire
• In addition to dealing with Covid-19 and Brexit, we now learn that the Queen is no longer the richest woman in the UK (the enormous wealth of Rishi Sunak’s family has not been declared in the ministerial register, November 27. We should initiate a crowdfunding page?
Marion Neville
Brighton
• Following the latest speech by Oliver Dowden (the Secretary of Culture to ask Netflix to reproduce the “health warning” that The Crown is fictional, on November 29), he will ask the National Gallery to explain that his exhibitions are not are they actually photographs?
I’m eating Whiteley
Oxford
• We use too much water; cleaning products are highly polluting. Whole body washing was not considered necessary 50 years ago, so why is it essential now (one in four Britons don’t shower every day. And the others don’t do it well, on 27 November)? What’s wrong with the smell of a human being?
Michael Heaton
Warminster, Wiltshire
• I hope the village of Intercourse in Pennsylvania is still thriving (Fugging hell: tired of derision, the Austrian village changes its name, November 26).
Alasdair Gibson
Ledbury, Herefordshire
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