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This was a momentous year for Britain and the world. I was born. Ten past eight in the morning, just in time for breakfast, on July 17th at Newcastle General Hospital. My father had been transferred there after spending some time in Geneva in Switzerland. If he'd stayed, I'd have been Swiss and Roger Federer might not have been the most famous Swiss. Having married in the same year as the Queen and Prince Philip we got a bit out of step here as Prince Charles was born on November 14th of the previous year but not wishing to lose all links I am reliably informed that the Duchess of Cornwall shares her birthday with me, albeit she is 2 years older, you can tell, and despite that fact there has been a total failure on her part to ever invite me to what would be my party. I think young Charles and I may be wearing a similar dress but I have more hair. Still do. Ooops, that's the OBE gone.

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