Lord Snowdon’s grandfather was the surgeon Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones. In Caernarfon he had a patient who believed an eel lived inside him and directed his words and actions. “I can’t do that, my eel won’t let me,” he would say.

Sir Robert arranged for him to be anaesthetised. When the patient came to, he was shown a large eel which Sir Robert had thoughtfully purchased earlier from the local fishmonger. “There’s your eel,” said Sir Robert cheerfully.

The man went home cured.

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