Skegness RBL chair Kevin Woolley and vice chair Tracy Turner had the honour of meeting His Majesty the King at the Royal Garden Party at Buckingham Palace in London. We caught up with them earlier.
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00:00Tracey and Kevin how does it feel to be at Buckingham Palace?
00:23Amazing, humbling, it's brilliant, it's alright. We're making the best of a bad day. Mrs T managed to flag a introduction with Prince Edward, so Prince Edward now knows all about what we did last year, all about what we're doing this year and I don't know what I said but he was laughing his head off.
00:50Yeah, we had about a 10 minute conversation with the Prince, he was fully engaging and he was just taking in what we were doing and he really loved Skegness, it was amazing.
01:00Yeah, well I'm sure you invited him to this year's display.
01:07Oh yeah, but we need to weigh you a bit higher.
01:11Alright, okay, so are there many royals about? Have you seen the King yet?
01:17We've seen him, yes, haven't spoken to him but we've seen him.
01:21Yet.
01:22Yes, yes.
01:24Yeah, so we've got King Charles, we've got Queen Camilla, we've seen Sophie and we've seen Edward and a lot of Beefeaters and a lot of military people.
01:33And Princess Anne.
01:34Oh yeah. Princess Anne?
01:36Yeah.
01:37Oh no, I'm not seeing Princess Anne, right, I need to go find Princess Anne because, yeah.
01:42She will be interested because she comes to Skegness quite a lot so she'll really be interested in what you're doing, won't she?
01:48Oh yeah, we're definitely putting Skegness on the map now and the amount of people that have come up to us as well because obviously I'm wearing the poppy.
01:54So this poppy here is from Eve, Borough Knitter Natter, Eve Lister. Now Eve is now 99 years old. Last year when she was 98 she was knitting me one poppy a day.
02:08We're down to three a week now, she's 99 but I'm taking that so we bought that with us and this will go on the net very specially.
02:16And we even told Prince Edward.
02:19Oh yeah, Prince Edward knows all about Eve Lister from Borough Knitter Natter.
02:23Wow.
02:24I mean that's just amazing isn't it? So you seem to be having fabulous weather there as well.
02:30Well it's just starting to cloud over now.
02:33It's been cloud over now but it's been stunning all day.
02:35Yeah.
02:36So what did you have to eat? What did they give you to eat?
02:41I had ham and tomato sandwiches with mustard, there was some cucumber and mint sandwiches, some lovely cakes.
02:50I had some egg and cress.
02:55Yeah.
02:56I've taken photos.
02:57Oh jolly good.
02:58Or we took a picture of the menu.
03:00Right.
03:01There's a door behind you.
03:02There's a door behind you, I understand, that doesn't have any guards on.
03:16So I think...
03:17We're going to try to get on the balcony.
03:19We should get on the balcony.
03:20If I see an opportunity I'm going to go for it but it might not.
03:23We've had a couple of flyovers.
03:25I mean they have been Boeing 747s but I'm taking it.
03:28Yeah.
03:29Yeah.
03:30Sort of take everything you can.
03:31Okay.
03:32Well thank you for getting in touch with us.
03:34And enjoy the rest of the day.
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