EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Prince Harry missed a trick by not mentioning this sizzling anecdote when he gave Walter Payton an NFL award in Las Vegas

Harry presenting the Walter Payton Man of the Year award in Las Vegas to the NFL player that excelled both on and off the field clearly wasn't aware of his uncle Edward's connection to Payton, arguably NFL's greatest ever player. Shortly before he retired in 1987 Payton, known as Sweetness, was invited by Prince Edward to join his sister Anne's team in the ill-fated BBC TV production It's a Royal Knockout at Alton Towers. Harry presenting the Walter Payton Man of the Year award in Las Vegas to the NFL player that excelled both on and off the field clearly wasn't aware of his uncle Edward's connection to Payton, arguably NFL's greatest ever player Shortly before he retired in 1987 Payton, known as Sweetness, was invited by Prince Edward to join his sister Anne's team in the ill-fated BBC TV production It's a Royal Knockout at Alton Towers The current band of working royals, many elderly, may be slimming down more quickly than the King had planned. Armed with an economy British Airways return ticket to London and the Oscar he'd won for his short film – Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life – a young Peter Capaldi approached the BA desk at LAX. '