21 AUGUST 1993, Page 22

Sucking up

Sir: Mark Amory, tutor to Ronnie Mutebi (`My pupil, King Ronnie', 31 July), must have instructed him well.

The new Kabaka, then Ssabataka and Crown Prince, telephoned me on the eve of my departure last week for Kampala and the Coronation to look after the press corps. I asked him if he needed anything from London.

'Only the current issue of The Spectator,' he replied.

Christopher Moorsom

28 Draycott Place, London SW3