Duke of Edinburgh surprises movie stars

The Duke of Edinburgh made an unexpected visit to the set of Hatton Garden heist film King Of Thieves, stars Paul Whitehouse and Ray Winstone have revealed. The movie also stars Sir Michael Caine, Sir Tom Courtenay, Sir Michael Gambon and Jim Broadbent as the thieves who pulled off what is believed to be the biggest burglary in British legal history.

The group stole jewellery and valuables worth an estimated £14 million by boring a hole into the wall of a vault in London’s jewellery quarter, before ransacking 73 safety deposit boxes in 2015.

Appearing on The Jonathan Ross Show, Whitehouse said: “Prince Philip came to visit us on set one day. We were filming in Windsor.”

His co-star Ray Winstone added: “He pulled up in a car 0 Duke turned down meeting invitation with film’s stars

and the window went down on the Range Rover and he said ‘What are you doing?’

“I said, ‘We’re making a film, Sir’. I said, ‘Yes, with Sir Tom Courtenay and Sir Michael Caine, would you like to meet them?’ And he went, ‘No’.”

Winstone is playing his childhood friend Daniel Jones in the film and said he visited him in prison to get his blessing. He said: “I went to school with him. I sat next to him at school. We actually sat next to one another at school.”