Prince Philip visited the set of ‘King Of Thieves’.
The movie’s stars Paul Whitehouse and Ray Winstone have revealed that the Duke of Edinburgh made a surprise visit to the set of the movie, which follows the story of the Hatton Garden heist, where £14 million was stolen in London’s jewellery quarter when a group of thieves drilled a hole into the wall of a vault in 2015.
Sharing information about meeting the royal, Whitehouse said: "Prince Philip came to visit us on set one day. We were filming in Windsor."
Whilst his co-star Ray Winstone added: "He pulled up in a car 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 starring in the movie as his childhood friend Daniel Jones – who is currently serving a seven year jail sentence for his part in the robbery – and he visited his pal in prison before accepting the role.
Speaking on The Jonathon Ross Show, he said: "I went to school with him. I sat next to him at school. We actually sat next to one another at school. I wanted to go and visit him before we did the film, not to find out anything about him because I knew about him. But out of respect really, to let him know I was playing him and find out how he felt about me playing him. Physically, we are not the same. He’s a very fit boy.
"I went to visit him a couple of times. I think Dan had a really tough life at home, a tough upbringing. I was very lucky, I had a great home life as a kid and it just wasn’t in me. Some things are in you, some things aren’t … When you grow up around people that you know have been criminals or been brutes in their life."
Prince Philip made surprise visit to King Of Thieves set
