6 SEPTEMBER 2003, Page 32

Subject to no one

From Mike Block Sir: I spluttered my vodka over the last page of The Spectator the other night as I read Michael Henderson's piece (Sport, 23 August) from New York: 'The Queen, who is one of the few British subjects [sic] to have visited New York...'. Surely Her Majesty is just about the only Briton who cannot possibly be described as a subject?

Mike Block

Lehork, Poland