Whether it's getting a small nick while cooking or an unexpected cut doing DIY - most of us have experienced an everyday situation which has left us reaching for the at-home medical box. So it's sort of refreshing to learn that even members of the Royal Family occasionally go through the same thing from time to time.
After all, they're only people. However, rightly or wrongly, many of us labour under the preconception that the Windsors - like royalty and the super-rich across the globe - are waited on hand and foot by an army of staff without getting their hands dirty (so to speak).
That doesn't seem to be the case for the Duchess of Cambridge. This week, Kate Middleton was photographed with a plaster wrapped around her right thumb as she shook hands and chatted to fans at the Jubilee in the Castle event in Cardiff.
