By royal appointmentAL HUGHES/STUFF A Hughes Illustration For first use with David Hill essay December 23, 2017Just before Christmas four decades back, I helped raise the literacy levels of the British royal family. In my 12 weeks there, I taught poet Ted Hughes' daughter, novelist Frederick Raphael's son, and the youngest son of an actor called Sir Laurence Olivier, whom you may have heard of? Nothing exceptional about him, except that when the Headmaster mentioned him at my job interview, he also mentioned the on-site bodyguard. The boy was called David, and since staff and students at Bedales address one another by first names, he and I soon got into a jokey morning routine. I took my 20p ballpoint from Boots the Chemist and poised it above the Christmas card belonging to David Armstrong-Jones, aka Viscount Linley, only son of Anthony Armstong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon, and Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret Rose.

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