The King told Sir Jeremy Hunt to “keep trying” when the former chancellor told him he was writing a book on how to “make Britain great again”.

Sir Jeremy, 59, was knighted by the King at Windsor Castle on Tuesday.

The politician said: “He asked me what I was doing, and I said I was writing a book on how to make Britain great again, and he said, ‘Well, keep trying’, with a twinkle in his eye.”

Sir Jeremy also thanked the King for writing a letter to his 11-year-old daughter, and for visiting his friend at a south London hospice to invest her as a Dame shortly before she died.

The King visited Dame Sarah Anderson, who was founder and chief executive of suicide prevention charity The Listening Place, at Royal Trinity Hospice in Clapham Common on December 5, two days before her death.

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