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Yorkshire serves up special tea gift as Prince strolls and chats
THE Duke of Edinburgh was given a box of royal tea specially blended to mark his visit to the Great Yorkshire Show.
Liz Earl greeted him as he made his way through the busy show stands and handed him a tin of second flush darjeeling and tippy assam tea, blended from two of the best tea-making estates in the world.
Ms Earl, who works for Taylors of Harrogate, said: "I asked if he would like a special box of Yorkshire tea that we named after him and he said, 'Yes'. He wanted to know if we had blended the tea in Harrogate.
"I said with a bit of global warming we are hoping to make a blend here in a few years' time," she joked.
Prince Philip, who celebrated his 87th birthday last month, arrived at the showground with the Queen before being taken on his own tour.
A large crowd broke into spontaneous applause as the Royal party arrived at the Renewable Energy area.
Dressed in a grey suit, he was shown round by Hazel Baker, the Yorkshire Agricultural Society's education adviser, and YAS council member John Stoddart-Scott, who has just retired as society chairman.
Prince Philip showed a keen interest in the alternative energy trade stands, particularly the solar power and wind turbine displays.
Accompanied by his entourage and an eager crowd of all ages, the Prince made his way round the Discovery Zone, passing a display of fencing by youngsters involved with North Yorkshire Sport, stopping to talk to people in the stands.
He spent several minutes chatting to staff from St Aidan's Church of England School in Harrogate, which is one of the country's leading schools in promoting healthy eating among children.
The school's catering manager, Trevor Whitehead, gave a demonstration of bread-baking and cutting while the Duke of Edinburgh talked to the school's website co-ordinator, Alison Plant.
"We talked about our healthy eating in schools project. He was asking how many children were at the school and he seemed impressed by what we're doing and liked our website."
Despite the ominous-looking clouds rain stayed away as the Duke strolled between the stalls, making short work of the heavy going underfoot.
Making his way back to the President's Pavilion Prince Philip was escorted along the machinery lines avenue by John Russell, of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society council, stopping several times to admire the array of giant tractors and farming machinery.
Mr Russell's son Paul, chief executive of agricultural machinery supplier Russells, which has exhibited at the show for the past 60 years, showed the Duke some of
the latest, state-of-the-art tractors. "He was very interested in what the latest developments were and how they worked.
"He was asking what the horsepower was and where the tractors were manufactured.He seemed to have a good understanding, although he said he wasn't sure what tractors he had at Sandringham," he said. By the time Prince Philip finished his hour-long walk his shoes were caked in mud, not that it seemed to bother him.
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