Dear Mr. Cornwell, I will echo the hundreds of thousands who enjoy your books and say that you are one of my favorite authors. I hope we will be entertained with your works for years to come. At the end of Waterloo, Wellington tells Sharpe that the Prince of Wales’s Own are his. I took this to mean he was promoted to Lt. Col. in the British Army (not the Dutch). My question is did the Horse Guards approve of the appointment or reject it like his earlier gazette? When he intoduces himself to somebody in “Sharpe’s Devil”, he refers to himself as a Lt. Col. Darren Ivey