Daily Mail, Tuesday, July 30, 2019 Page 23
THE Duchess of Cornwall
confides in Saga magazine
her love of ships, adding: ‘I
hate flying.’ Much time in
the sky looms as she and Charles head to
New Zealand in November. This trip is to
compensate for the failure to include the
destination when they last visited
Australia. That outward trip took four
days – to address Camilla’s aversion.BORIS, looking presidential as he tip-
tapped his inaugural speech in Downing
Street, might have asked the snapper to
include a bust of his hero Churchill. More
apt than the plastic bottles on view.JACOB Rees-Mogg’s insistence on not
using commas before ‘and’ displeases
grammar-obsessed Gyles Brandreth, who
recalls an unfortunate omission of ‘and’
in a newspaper description of a Peter
Ustinov documentary. It promised:
‘Highlights of his global tour [including]
encounters with Nelson Mandela, an 800-
year-old demigod and a dildo collector’.OUR new PM prompts historian Simon
Schama to throw his toys out of the pram,
tweeting: ‘Can someone please stand up
and start shouting (it won’t be the weasel
Corbyn)? YOU ARE NOT CHURCHILL, fatso,
and the EU is not the Third Reich. You do
not have a war cabinet because THERE IS
NO WAR. How DARE you invoke the sacri-
fices of those who fought one!’ Nurse!HAVING failed to
save Julian Assange,
former Baywatch star
Pamela Anderson,
pictured, wants to
rescue horses at the
Calgary Stampede,
writing: ‘Moving back
to my native Canada,
my heart sank as I
read about six horses
who died in this
year’s chuckwagon races. I urge you to
direct the Stampede to ban these deadly
race.’ If she turns up at the Ecuador
embassy with stallions in tow put her in
the Assange suite.VOGUE boss Edward Enninful basks in
guest editor Meghan Markle’s edition,
which features aristocratic mannequin
Adwoa Aboah. Meghan’s celebration of 16
women omits her grandmother-in-law
The Queen but does includes Adwoa, who
happens to be Ed’s goddaughter!WINSTON Churchill would be horrified
by disciple Boris Johnson’s Brexit plan,
writes Professor Ian Buruma in the New
York Times. He also reveals the Churchill
bust Barack Obama removed from the
Oval Office in 2010 was on loan while an
Epstein was being repaired, adding: ‘He
was accused by a British politician of
doing so out of spite, because of his
ancestral dislike of the British Empire...
that politician was Boris Johnson.’STILL flirtatious, Edna O’Brien recalls invit-
ing playwright Samuel Beckett back to
her Chelsea house and being warned
against an Irish sing-song: ‘As I was putting
my key in the door, Sam said: “Now, Edna,
no wailing”. But then what does he do? He
sits down at my piano and starts to “wail”
himself, singing the songs of Schubert.’Ephraim
Hardcastle
PAUL THOMAS IS AWAY Email: [email protected]
Why toddlers know right from wrong
THE son of one of Britain’s top
neurosurgeons drowned in a
swimming pool tragedy at the
family’s £3.5million mansion.
Cambridge student Dominic Ham-
lyn, 24, is believed to have suffered a
heart attack after a birthday party
for his younger brother in the early
hours of Sunday.
His surgeon father Peter yesterday
paid a moving tribute to his ‘hero’ son –
and revealed he had personally tried to
revive him after he inexplicably sank to
the bottom of the outdoor pool.
He described the amateur rugby player
as a ‘superb athlete’ and a ‘beautiful
boy’ who had delivered an unscripted
15-minute speech at his brother’s 21st
birthday party just before he died.
Mr Hamlyn said in a statement: ‘There
is no mystery, there were no drugs. He
was swimming in his swimming trunks,
almost sober. He had just spoken for 15
minutes without notes. He completedTragedy: Dominic Hamlyn was at the family home in Crundale, KentInspiration: Neurosurgeon Peter Hamlyn and his ‘beautiful boy’ Dominic
two lengths and then sank to
the bottom.
‘It was his youngest brother’s
21st and, shortly after giving a
brilliant speech about him,
Dominic went swimming with
friends. He was immediately
pulled from the water and a
medical student started per-
forming CPR until I came a
minute later to take over.’
Mr Hamlyn said an ambulance
had arrived quickly at the man-
sion in the hamlet of Crundale,
Kent, and Dominic was stabi-
lised and taken to hospital.
He addeed: ‘Two consultants
worked on him throughout the
night. A specialist team came
from St Thomas to put him on
a bypass. He died last night
despite all their efforts.’
Mr Hamlyn, a world-famous
brain surgeon who saved the
life of boxer Michael Watson in
1991 when he developed a near-
fatal blood clot on his brainafter a bout with Chris Eubank,
added: ‘There will be an inquest
but he clearly had a heart
attack – a brain scan ruled out
a haemorrhage. Their brilliance
at resuscitation is our only
comfort. Why did he die?
‘He was a superb athlete com-
peting in both rugby and row-
ing at Cambridge.’
Referring to the case of Fab-diac syndrome. What the foot-
baller had and survived. Not
our beautiful, beautiful boy. We
are broken. If he is to be
remembered it is as a hero and
one of the world’s helpers.’
Dominic, who was studying
for a business masters at Cam-
bridge University, had returned
to the eight-bedroom family
home near Canterbury for the
summer holiday.
He received a first-class hon-
ours degree in science and
engineering from University
College London, where he was
in the rugby first XV.
He was the university sports
officer while also finding time
to learn fluent Spanish and run
his own online retail business.
In 2014 Dominic ran the Lon-
don Marathon for charity, rais-
ing £5,700 in sponsorship for a
brain and spine charity founded
by his father. In an online fund-raising page he told how he had
been inspired by his father’s
work to want to help others.
He wrote: ‘When I was a
young boy I helped my father
fundraising. He and his patient,
the injured boxer Michael
Watson, along with his carer
Lenny, walked the London
Marathon for the Brain &
Spine Foundation.
‘It took them six days and I
swore when I was old enough I
would run it – in the words of
Michael, “for the benefit of oth-
ers less fortunate than me”.’
The coroner in Canterbury
said an inquest would be
opened and adjourned in the
near future.
A spokesman for University
College London said: ‘We are
deeply shocked and saddened
to learn of the death of a much-
loved and talented member of
our alumni community.’By Victoria Allen
Science CorrespondentBy Neil SearsCHILDREN have a sense of justice
from the age of only one and expect to
see wrongdoers punished by those in
charge, researchers claim.
Toddlers aged 16 to 18 months expect
leaders such as parents and teachers to
act when someone breaks the rules, the
study of 120 children suggests.
Researchers in the US tested toddlers’
reactions using a teddy bear puppet show
where a ‘wrongdoer’ bear took all the toys.
When the ‘leader’ bear failed to punish this,
the children stared at the scene for longer- which they do when they see something
unexpected. But when the leader inter-
vened to give a toy to the bear that had
missed out, the children looked away nine
seconds sooner, showing events had pro-
ceeded as they thought they should. Pro-
fessor Renee Baillargeon, who led the study
from the University of Illinois, said the
infants’ reaction showed they ‘expected
the leader to right the wrong’.
Experts believe children are hardwired to
expect leaders to administer justice, prob-
ably a throwback to early humanity when
working together was key to survival.
The study, published in the journal Pro-
ceedings of the National Academy of Sci-
ences, concludes: ‘By the second year of
life, infants already ascribe unique respon-
sibilities to leaders.’‘He was one of the
world’s helpers’rice Muamba, the Bolton Wan-
derers footballer who collapsed
on the pitch from a cardiac
arrest during an FA Cup game
in 2012, he said: ‘It is called
sudden death in athletes or
sometimes sudden athlete
death – SAD.
‘It is a rare, often fatal, car-Top brain surgeon’s
son dead in pool af ter
party at £3.5m home