The work of Chris Puddephatt, the excellent photographer who photographed Bolsover Castle and Kensington Palace so skilfully for me at much cost to limb and trouser knee.

Brides-to-be, you need her to photograph your wedding. (Grooms, I know you don’t really care, but she’ll make you look good too.)

Here I am out on the road with a camera crew for The One Show. They look amazingly patient considering we had just finished take 37. This film was about witches.

Here I am looking jolly pleased with myself the day Cavalier was published. Thanks to lovely Felicity and her agency for the flowers!

Measuring our Henry VIII body double on the set of ‘Inside the Body of Henry VIII’.

With Robert Hutchinson and Catherine Hood, in our ‘investigation room’ for ‘Inside the Body of Henry VIII’