THEY SAID WHAT?

“We trained together, we fought together, and most importantly we laughed together”

– Prince Harry describing his service with Fijian soldiers in Afghanistan as he paid tribute to their camaraderie.

“I was trying to rescue you from having to dress up in sheets and learn some dumb dialogue”

– Classicist Mary Beard, below, apologising for referring to B-list actors having to dress up to perform in “excruciating” historical reconstructions on TV.

“I absolutely love Camilla, and am very grateful that my teenage years have well prepared me for playing a chain-smoking serial snogger with a pudding bowl haircut”

– Actress Emerald Fennell, who is playing a young Camilla Parker Bowles in a new series of TV hit The Crown. “My next-door neighbour was incredibly strongly Leave and was actually quite annoyed with me for campaigning to remain. But he still puts my bins out every Wednesday when I’m in Parliament”

- Labour MP Lisa Nandy.

“Fat men are harder to kidnap”

- Inscription on a T-shirt worn by portly Jeremy Clarkson.

“Fashion not penury clothes us. Why, they even pay the earth for jeans with more holes in them than a colander” - Sir Bernard Ingham.

“Equality in hankies. Kleenex recognises women can have just as big noses as men”

- Diane Silva, of Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, in a letter to the Daily Mail, on the abandonment of the term “Mansize” tissues.