riverrock wrote:I met him along with others when recieving my Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award at St James's Palace. Was as interested in who the next group of people we would inspire would be as he was in us, wanting to push us, as teens, forward to inspire others.
Minor tangent, but I recall going to St James' Palace in the mid 90s to receive the DofE Gold Award also and being very excited that it was going to be presented by a special guest: none other than Bryan Adams!
Bryan Adams! I mean, pretty exciting for a group of teenagers at a point when he was in his second-wind renaissance. Summer of 69 pretty much an anthem of our youth, teaming up with Mel C and all that in recent years.
Except, of course, it turned out to Bryan Adams, Chief Exec of some random FTSE 100 at the time, that we had no awareness of.
Utter disappointment.
In contrast, I
did actually get to meet Prince Philip briefly, around 7 or 8 years ago at a social event marking the inauguration of a new fellowship at the university I was at (and looking to raise some dosh for the uni coffers); he seemed as calm and at ease as could be expected of a man for whom such events were likely an an eternal chain around his ankles. Nice chap, gave a good speech and was pleasant to talk to (albeit incredibly briefly).