“These are two great public servants who the country must be very grateful for, the service they have given over 70-80 years in public life.”
Recalling his first interaction with the Duke, Mr Brown told the hosts: “I was a student at Edinburgh University very near here when I was a teenager.
“I had just graduated and had become the Rector of the university and he was the Chancellor and of course, the university establishment didn’t like the fact that a student had been chosen as the Rector to chair the university court.
“They tried to change the rules and would like to have gotten rid of me.”
source: express.co.uk