One of the phrases that is attributed to St David of Wales is his encouragement to his community to ‘be joyful, keep the faith, and do the little things that you have seen and heard with me’. They remind us that every instant of our lives affords an opportunity to be drawn closer to the God who loves us, and that small steps of kindness are indications of the Spirit at work in our lives.

The life of service to which King Charles is dedicated displays on the public stage the values of love and kindness that each of us can demonstrate through what the poet Wordsworth describes as ‘little, nameless, unremembered acts / Of kindness and of love’.