▪ SCREEN legend Gina Lollobrigida made a big impression on Prince Philip when he met her in Sweden in 1956.

‘The Italian naval attache gave a reception to which both my father, Commander John Hamer, as British naval attache, and the Duke of Edinburgh, on a royal visit, were invited,’ reveals Eden Confidential reader Sue Brown. ‘Presented in line were Anita Ekberg, Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Loren. On seeing them, the Duke turned to my father and said: “Oh, look . . . the Continental Shelf.” How my father kept a straight face, I do not know . . .’