An Edinburgh man who met Prince Philip several times through his role at the Duke Of Edinburgh's Award has spoken fondly to Edinburgh Live about his time meeting the Prince.
For a number of years, Prince Phillip regularly travelled to the capital to attend the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award ceremony which was held at Holyrood Palace.
Peter Moir, who is the Scottish Operations Manager of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award told Edinburgh Live how Prince Phillip enjoyed his visits to meet young people and their families receiving their award and often had people in fits of laughter from his sense of humour.
Mr Moir said that for many young people in Scotland, receiving a Gold Award was the closest they would get to traditional high school graduation and so Prince Philip always took time to speak to as many people individually as he could.
The Operations Manager recalled the times he met Prince Philip, saying: "I met him on a few occasions during the Gold Awards that were held at Holyrood Palace, for young people getting their award.
"My memories of meeting him there were that I was actually quite taken aback by his enthusiasm, his ability to really listen to young people and hear their stories and to really celebrate with a lot of humour.
"He also made a huge effort to engage with parents and carers of the young people as well to hear about their journeys and their ups and downs, I was super impressed with the time he gave to that and how he engaged with them.
"He used a lot of humour, quite often when young people were in their groups receiving their awards there was raucous laughter coming from where he would be."
"He would ask where people had gone and if people had been canoeing, quite often there is a bit of a tension between anglers and canoeists and he would just kind of make a bit of a joke about that.
"He was very perceptive, it was very much coming from what a young person had said and then he would also listen to that and come back with a funny humorous comment.
"Young people really enjoyed that and parents and carers that were there really found that beneficial.
"It really kind of broke the ice on those occasions where people were kind of nervous meeting somebody from Royalty for the first time.
'The Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award ceremony is like the graduation ceremony for young people doing their awards so it's a very special occasion to come too."
"I think he was a very passionate person who cares about young people deeply."
The Duke of Edinburgh's Award will continue, with Prince Edward taking over his father's role.
