Obituaries in the Daily Telegraph rarely fail to amuse and instruct. From today’s, on HRH Prince Carol of Romania, who has just died aged 86:

“The Crown Prince was handsome and intelligent, but not without an element of instability in his character. He was also highly sexed, some believing that he suffered from satyriasis. Anatomical descriptions, when overheard, were mistaken for descriptions of the Eiffel Tower.”

[Derb] I always go to the Telegraph obituaries before the news. This is an inherited trait: my mother, on picking up our town newspaper, would open it first at what she referred to as the “hatched, matched, and dispatched” page ( i.e. births, marriages, and deaths).