I FEEL so sorry for Sophie the Countess of Wessex - her only 'crime' was to be rather nave - and I think all this media hype has gone overboard.

I blame the tabloid newspaper and the stupid idiot who dressed up as a Sheikh.

They are the ones to blame. Unfortunately, the 'firm' at Buckingham Palace have done exactly what they want to Sophie - as they did to Diana. Good gracious me, it is 2001 not the Middle Ages.

Mrs Barbara Wright,

The Bungalows,

Manor Road, Easingwold.

Updated: 10:47 Wednesday, April 11, 2001