Adam Macqueen

Birth of Prince Edward comes not shortly afterwards, but Charles has been around.

Charles is actually 13, but I'm going to give you half a point because he was in hospital.

He was having an emergency appendectomy, and the speech bubble coming out of the royal coach was saying, Great Ormond Street, James, and step on it.

But yes, the coverage of Prince Edward's birth a bit later on in 1963 and Princess Anne starting at Benenden as well.

Which gives you an idea of how long Private Eye has been going.

We were covering the royal children who are now grandparents.

It's extraordinary.

Number two, one of the earliest bits of journalism in the Eye, because the jokes came first in Private Eye, the journalism sort of joined a few years later in the 1960s.

One of the first bits of journalism that appeared, however, was in November 1964 and it wasn't the Eye's own journalism.

Instead...

It was a roundup of what the French and German papers were saying about what particular royal scandal uncovered in the British media.

1964.

God bless you, Bob.

Go on, sir.

Was it Profumo?

No, this is post-Profumo.

It's a little bit vague.

No, not this one particularly.

There was a lot of stuff about Prince Philip flying helicopters and how safe he was.

Never that safe behind the wheel of a car either.