Inspecting women’s stiletto shoes is not a task you might expect of a priest secretary at Archbishop’s House, Westminster. This was, however, a duty assigned to the young Bruce Kent, who worked there for two years in the 1960s when high heels were the height of fashion. In an article for Oremus, the monthly Westminster Cathedral magazine, Kent, 85, who later left active ministry and is still vice-president of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, explains that higher-ups ruled that stiletto points could ruin the new floor in the Throne Room. So he was sent to inspect shoes of ladies on the way to receptions. “If I judged that they were too dangerously stiletto, I was to invite the wearers to put a little plastic fitting over the offending spike,” he writes. “