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There is something egalitarian about taking a tumble. I’m sure Queen Elizabeth has fallen a few times in her 94 years, losing a battle with gravity exactly as a commoner would, although possibly wearing more jewelry.

Everybody does it, at some time and in the same way.

So I don’t feel particularly special when it happens, although I’m always surprised. I spent some time in emergency departments for this very reason when I was younger. It seems to me that I should have filled out my ration card by now.

I fell on some stone steps at a castle, even. I was visiting Urquhart Castle in Sco...