Royal Mail successfully delivers letter addressed to ‘The Lord Bishop and his sexy wife’

She also recently founded Welfare for Healthcare, an initiative to support communities during the Covid pandemic.

Ms Colston was as pleased as her husband to be addressed in such complimentary terms.

“She thought it was very amusing and was happy for me to tweet it,” said Dr Inge. “I’m all for Twitter being fun and not just for miserable things.”

Letter was a ‘joke’ from a friend

The letter to Dr Inge came from a friend who had earlier joked with him about how to address him properly in writing.

The Bishop’s tweet prompted widespread amusement, with observers wondering which piece of information was the deciding factor for Worcester’s Royal Mail staff in identifying its proper recipient.

“Can’t help wondering whether it was the first or the second line of the address that provided the clinching piece of information,” said Gareth Thomas, Emeritus Professor of Employment Law at University of East Anglia on Twitter.

Dr Inge’s first wife Denise died of cancer in 2014 aged just 51 and left behind two children. When he became engaged to H-J he said: “to have found love again is a most wonderful thing and I feel immensely blessed.”

The Bishop’s letter came after a postman in Northern Ireland managed to deliver a letter addressed only with a series of sketchy biographical details including: “Friends with the fella who runs the butchers”.