EXCLUSIVE: It's 6pm on a wet, windy Wednesday and a very animated Duke of Edinburgh is chatting about everything from schoolchildren's exam results to the plight of refugees.
It's 6pm on a wet, windy Wednesday and a very animated Duke of Edinburgh is chatting about everything from schoolchildren's exam results to the plight of refugees.
Steady Eddie – a nickname given to the Duke of Kent, but one equally appropriate for the late Queen's youngest son – has spent most of his royal career quietly toiling away, conducting hundreds of engagements each year that barely appear on the front pages Advertisement But this weekend marks a milestone moment for the low-key duke – who is celebrating his 60th birthday tomorrow.
Indeed, when we sit down for an exclusive interview at the Salmon Youth Centre in Bermondsey , there is one subject the prince becomes sweetly flustered about, and that's his wife. But he by no means appears to find this role a burden. On the youth centre visit, the duke gets stuck in playing table tennis with the teenagers, joining them in a mixing studio and discussing the merits of trampolining 'He is incredibly supportive in terms of the work we do, generous with his time and makes things happen,' says London Youth CEO Pauline Daniyan.
He says parents can be unwilling to accept that formal exams are not everything, saying: 'Qualifications will get you an interview. But they won't get you the job... It's the other strings to your bow.' Edward's manners are excellent, a long-term royal retainer tells me: 'He was always the late Queen's politest child – and that's never changed.'
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