Well Prince Charles shook my hand at the Swansea Shanty festival three years ago. (I was in the official welcoming line-up) But what gave me greater satisfaction was, that he stopped to hear my junior shanty group "The Nipper Jacks" singing on stage.

I also met The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at the Swansea Maritime museum when I was taking a class in a shanty workshop at the time. I was too busy with the kids to stop and talk to them!