Prince Harry apparently received a hefty sum of inherited riches from his late great-grandmother on his 40th birthday.

In the Queen Mother’s household, the man with the most difficult job was undoubtedly her treasurer, Major Sir Ralph Anstruther. Sir Ralph, who held the post from 1961 to 1998, is remembered as having been a meticulously dressed but not especially financially proficient man who had “but a hazy idea of costs”.