Driving me around the Windsor estate a few years ago, the Duke of Edinburgh was in full flow as he pointed to one landmark after another. ‘You can see Prince Consort’s Farm has remained, externally, the same as Prince Albert built it,’ he mused, before pointing in the opposite direction, adding: ‘Great place for crows, this.’ On we drove, past the farms designed by ‘Farmer George’, King George III, past the Frogmore gardens designed by Queen Charlotte, past the mausoleum built by Queen Victoria — ‘the family burial plot’ as the Duke called it — and so much else. Though Prince Philip has always shrugged off comparisons to Prince Albert, his great- great-grandfather, the similarities are remarkable We were making a documentary about Windsor. But it soon dawned on me that so much of the landscape was actually down to the Duke himself: the tree plantations, a new deer herd and the Guards Polo Club, the international polo venue he built on the disused wartime airstrip at Smith’s Lawn. As well as being the longest-serving Ranger of Windsor Great Park in history, he is also the first member of the Royal Family to open a shop.

‘About 30 years ago I suggested that we should have a plucking and packing facility for game,’ he told me. ‘Then this business of farm shops came along, so we converted the potting sheds into a farm shop.’. Share Weaving his way past the gobsmacked queue at the shop’s meat counter, the Duke gave us a swift retail masterclass: ‘Stuff grown here that was not [financially] viable when it went to the open market is viable now that it’s got an outlet. By taking out the middleman, it becomes more efficient. You can get lots of customers but if you don’t price it right, you lose money...’ It has often been said that if the Duke had not been married to the Queen, he would have risen to the top of the Royal Navy. But it might equally be argued that he would have had similar success as a businessman, engineer or headmaster. Here is a man with a sharp intellect, a quizzical mind and a love of innovation, be it installing some of the first solar panels in Britain, planting an experimental truffle farm in Norfolk, driving around in one of Britain’s first electric cars, installing one of the earliest desktop computers, taking his entire office to try Heston Blumenthal’s latest experimental menu or being the first royal television presenter. Tabledit Mac Serial Lookup.

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The list goes on and on. Because during a life just five years short of a century, there has seldom been a moment when the Duke has not been thinking about what to do next. That is why yesterday’s announcement was such big news. For it is no exaggeration to say that the results of this restless innovation have been global. In the early Sixties, for example, it was the Duke who played a central role in the creation of the World Wildlife Fund, paving the way for organisations such as Greenpeace and helping to kick-start an entire environmental movement. His Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, established more than 60 years ago in the teeth of opposition from a very sniffy Establishment — who thought it would undermine the Boy Scouts — has been adopted all over the world.

Even in countries with no British connection, millions of young people have been the beneficiaries of his scheme for boosting youthful self-esteem. The Duke of Edinburgh talks to children from St Edwards Catholic Primary School, during a visit to Lord's cricket ground in London where he opened the new Warner Stand His stewardship of the National Playing Fields Association has ensured that millions of children have had somewhere to play.

His pioneering Commonwealth Study Conferences — at which postwar trade union leaders and captains of industry from all over the world sat down together for the first time — have been a template for modern industrial relations. Along the way, his plain talking and ready wit have certainly added to the gaiety of the nation. Two books are devoted entirely to the sayings of the man who coined the word ‘dontopedalogy’ — the art of putting one’s foot in one’s mouth. Most of his best-known ‘gaffes’ actually started life as good-humoured attempts to break the ice with tongue-tied strangers. As the Duke himself has often remarked, the inherent danger of breaking the ice is that you sometimes fall through it.