Sir, – You believe that there has been a custom of the monarch sleeping in the State Bed of the Speaker’s House at Westminster “since the time of William the Conqueror” ( “Coronation nation: Royal mood in Britain is as diverse as its people”, Weekend Review, May 6th).
There is a problem with this assertion: there was no parliament until two centuries after the Norman Conquest. – Yours, etc,
CDC ARMSTRONG,
Belfast.