Royal visitors were the guests of honour at a celebration of Pangbourne College's centenary.

The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh led dignitaries into the college's Falkland's Memorial Chapel, a building she last visited in 2007.

Amongst the guests were the oldest living Pangbournian Keith Evans.

The 97-year-old was born three years after the college was founded and served with the Duke of a Edinburgh during the Second World War.

The pair were together in 1947 at a shore station HMS Royal Arthur in Warwick.

The two of them were both lieutenants at the time.

"I like him, he's following my example," the former Pangbourne school boy said.

"He was 18 months my junior. He was the lieutenant Mountbatten because they'd got rid of all that Greek nonsense.

"He was a bit randy.

"Obviously the history of the man is extraordinary."

Prince Philip announced he was standing down last week.

"I think it's good news," said Mr Evans, who lives with his wife Heather in Hazelmere in West Sussex.

"He will do what he wants to do, not what she tells him to.

"He'll still be around."

Speaking about the college he attended between 1933 and 1937, he continued: "It was bloody awful the but I think it's a bit better now.

"The standard of education and the accommodation was just mason huts.

"I made a lot of friends but they were killed in the war luckily I got through it."

The queen and Duke of Edinburgh attended a special service in the chapel before meeting long serving members of staff and pupils lining a procession route in their Number Ones cadet uniform.

The Duke of Edinburgh stopped and spoke to Harry Edwards who was one of the young pupils lining a path from the chapel to Devritt House.

"He asked me what the coloured badges meant," said the Dunbar House pupil.

"I told him they were to show our houses, I'm in Starboard."

Long-standing members of staff also welcomed the honorary guests, including Robert Pickett.

"I've been here the shortest amount of time," the head of chemistry said.

"I've been here for 18 years and the Duke asked me where I was before this."

The Queen signed a guestbook before a pupils paraded in front of her.

Her Majasty presented a new colour as well as giving Chief Cadet Captans, Frederick Taucher and Ellen White with a The Queen's Gold Medal.