Let’s play our trump card over king’s US visit | Brief letters

No king for Trump | Lashings | Lavishings | Clitoral discoveries Following President Donald Trump’s latest petulant outburst against the UK ( ‘Get your own oil’: Trump launches tirade against Europe for not joining Iran war, 31 March ) as he flails around for a way out of the quagmire he has got the world into with his illegal and unnecessary war on Iran, rather than agreeing to send King Charles for a state visit to the US, should we not instead tell him to “Go get your own royal”? David Griffiths Teddington, London • In reply to Jon Quine ( Letters, 31 March ), I would add a further use of lashings. Contrary to the popular myth created by the Comic Strip’s Famous Five spoofs broadcast on Channel 4 in the 1980s, Enid Blyton never used the phrase “lashings of ginger beer”.