Prince’s congratulations for a real romantic hero

Marine Mark Jackson from Berkshire went down on one knee in the Queen’s home to ask Rebecca Daniel to be his wife shortly after collecting his Conspicuous Gallantry Cross.

The Berkshire marine was being honoured for his heroic actions in Afghanistan after picking up and throwing back an insurgent’s grenade and lying on a comrade to shield him from the blast.

The romantic serviceman let the heir to the throne in on his secret proposal. “I told him I was going to propose and he said ‘Many congratulations in advance’,” he said.

Miss Daniel, 29, from Budleigh Salterton, Devon, said: “It was an immediate ‘yes’. I think he’s been putting me off the scent for a while.”