TV designer floored by Prince Philip

FLAMBOYANT interior designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen once supplied some flooring at Buckingham Palace and had always been under the impression that the Queen and Prince Philip liked it.

When the former Changing Rooms presenter returned to the palace for a function, the Duke of Edinburgh was, however, quick to disabuse him of the notion.

‘ I said: “You probably don’t know this, but years ago, I designed these floors.” And he looked down and went: “Hmm, never liked them.”

‘That sort of killed the conversation, really.’