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personality Katie Boyle, pictured in her prime, who died on tuesday aged 91, is said to have been a friend of Prince Philip, but she told the duke’s biographer, Gyles Brandreth, in 2004: ‘it’s ludicrous, pure fabrication.’ Prince Philip said about such stories: ‘You just shrug your shoulders and get on with it.’ Meanwhile, on a lighter note, disc jockey ‘Diddy’ David hamilton says he and Katie were friends while serving on a Battersea Dogs home committee. in her fluting, Lady Bracknell-like tones, she once left a message on his phone about a visit they were making to Windsor saying: ‘David, i’ll drive if you’ll hold my chihuahuas.’