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I was surprised that Wheeler’s got a mention on the BBC TV news tonight, with photos of a couple of bottle blondes I didn’t recognise, starlet types. They told me that Philip had been a very naughty boy upstairs at Wheeler’s at that time (1963). We went there for the company Christmas lunch one year at a time when Jack and David were looking at making a film about Rachman, the pantomime tabloid villain of the Profumo Affair. When I started my career in Marshall Street, Soho at Solus Enterprises with Jack Hazan, Roger Deakins, Dick Pope and David Mingay, Wheeler’s restaurant still existed in the Cambridge Circus corner of Soho, on Old Compton Street from memory. The bluntness and inappropriateness is the kind of thing, of course, that people loved about him. “Do they pay you properly?” (The CEO is beside me, two feet away.) He gradually made his way across the room and eventually reached us.
I’ve no idea why, I just knew it.Īnd that’s what happened. Philip entered right at the other corner of the room but I knew from the moment he entered he was going to come up to me. I was standing beside the CEO of the charity, Sir Roger Singleton. It was a huge room, conference centre scale. I was there with Barnardo’s for whom I was making films at the time. It was in the conference centre named after his wife (The Queen Elisabeth Centre) near Westminster Abbey, where they got married in November 1947.
I crossed paths with Prince Philip only once. 1992: HRH The Duke of Edinburgh photographed in the Chinese room, Buckingham Palace
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