Downstream

Thames swimming because,
unlike other riverside towns,
the tradition of bathing,
among royalty and privileged
Eton College boys, has been
well documented here for
hundreds of years. In 1303
the eighteen-year-old prince
who would later become
Edward II injured his Court
fool, Robert Bussard, while
playing ‘a trick’ on him in the
Thames one winter’s day, and
had to pay four shillings’