Dear Jo: Reader's Letters.

Show respect, Charles

IN A week when The Mirror has highlighted the need for a memorial to Princess Diana, where do we find Prince Charles?

Taking a tacky holiday in the Aegean (The Mirror, Aug 5) with his mistress, Camilla Parker Bowles, and his boys, William and Harry. Diana would turn in her grave.

Jennifer Cook Payhembury, Devon

IT SADDENS me to read that Prince William supposedly encouraged his father to invite Camilla Parker Bowles on holiday with them.

What are these boys thinking of? Have they been totally brainwashed into forgetting what this woman did to their mother?

Diana would surely be aghast at the company they are keeping.

S Parks, Wolverhampton

I NEARLY choked on my toast when I read about the royals going on holiday with Camilla Parker Bowles. How insensitive can this family get, especially as it's only weeks away from the second anniversary of Diana's death?

Those poor boys really do put up with a lot, and I agree with the Queen that CPB should be kept out of the public eye as often as possible.

We all love Diana, as she loved the people of the world.

Audrey Voller Chichester, W Sussex

SHAME on you, William, to go on holiday with the woman who caused your mother so much pain. You seem to be condoning your father's affair. But the sanctity of marriage is the bedrock of a civilised society.

A Calleja, Southsea, Hants

HOW William and Harry can spend their holidays with Camilla Parker Bowles is beyond me. She hurt their mother so much, and I don't know how they can bear to be in her presence.

E Jones Glamorgan, S Wales 

I HAD to smile when I read that the Queen had told Charles to be totally discreet while he was on holiday with his mistress.

As if the whole world doesn't already know. What a fiasco. I wonder if Charles has the guts to marry her and end all the speculation.

Edith Leggett Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk

CHARLES is determined to make a fool of himself. He must pass the throne on to Prince William.

G Johnston Leighton Buzzard, Beds

pounds 25 Letter Of The Day

WE WERE with our grandchildren Sasha, nine, and Jake, three, in Goff's Oak, Herts, a few weeks back when we passed the home of Victoria "Posh Spice" Adams and David Beckham. They were receiving The Mirror's gift of their wedding thrones and we watched from the gate.

Victoria came over and said if we waited, she and David would come over to have their pictures taken with us. They did and couldn't have been more friendly. I'd like to thank them for making our day.

Christine Edwards, Camberley, Surrey

Don't give chicken so much stick

READER Marjorie Jones described barbecued chicken drumsticks as "salmonella-on-a-stick" (Dear Jo, Aug 6) saying they never get properly cooked.

But there's no need for this. If you parboil the drumsticks first the red meat cooks thoroughly.

When cooked, rub the sauce of your choice on the chicken and stick it on the barbecue.

It's simple - and the stock can be used for soup.

N Knights, Leeds

Hounded out

SO the Queen adores her dogs so much she puts plaques up for them in the garden when they die (Mirror, August 6).

Surely this is no surprise, as we are a nation of animal lovers.

I know someone whose dog sleeps at the bottom of her bed while, after a minor disagreement, her husband is banished to the spare room.

I Robishaw Dukinfield, Cheshire

Dead Ringers

THIS is a photo of my lovely grand-daughter Danielle.

I think she looks just like Kylie Minogue who used to play Charlene in Neighbours alongside Jason Donovan.

Vera Hall, Croydon

SHADES OF MY YOUTH..

I'M really looking forward to the eclipse - the second in my lifetime.

At 13, I travelled to Ulverston, in Cumbria, to watch the 1927 event. This year, I'm settling for my garden.

C Couch Battersea, London

MY mother's name was Eclipses Elsie Waters.

She was born at Ahmadnagar in India on January 22, 1898, the day of a total eclipse.

W Waters Southampton

FOR me, as for reader Jim Temlett, eclipse day falls on my 65th birthday, making it unforgettable.

I'm taking my daughter and two grandchildren to the safari park, having first checked that they won't be locking all the animals up.

Marie Hitches Solihull, W Mids

HOTELIERS, landladies, even the Cornish pixies are all crying: "Where have the tourists gone?"

The answer is that sky-high prices and greed are casting a shadow as large as the eclipse itself.

Mary Eyre Wakefield, W Yorks

I REMEMBER an eclipse of the sun while I was stationed in the RAF at Pembroke Dock in 1954 , but it is never referred to. Am I wrong?

R Spashett Leigh-on-Sea, Essex

NO. There was a large partial eclipse of the sun on June 30, 1954, and many readers remember it - Jo

HOW can Britain's athletes be accused of taking performance-enhancing drugs? Judging by their efforts most of them look as if they're sorely in need of some.

K Clapson, Dover, Kent

WHEN I take samples to the doctor for testing and then go back for the results I always believe the Doctor. But when athletes get test results back they always dispute them. Why?

Q Cole, Wallington, Surrey