John, that story about the Marquess of Anglesey (better known as Lord Uxbridge) is marvellous, but may be apocryphal. What is true, however, is that Uxbridge, an inspired leader (who had previously also shown his courage by eloping with Wellington’s sister-in-law) lost a leg at Waterloo. Years later he returned to the scene of the amputation and enjoyed a hearty meal served at the same dinner table where the surgeon had once lopped off his shattered limb. At no time is Uxbridge thought to have gone through ‘counselling’.