One South East Cornwall man has special reason to cheer the Queen’s 90th birthday celebrations next week. For Group Captain Robbie Robins is a former aide-decamp (ADC) to Her Majesty, who met her and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on many occasions. Robbie, now 94, served from 1974 to 1983 as a Royal ADC in his capacity as Inspector in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force – one half of what he calls his ’double life’, as he was also a Whitehall civil servant. It was his service in the RAAF that’s behind his favourite memory of many encounters with the Queen. ‘It was her Silver Jubilee year, 1977, and it was also my silver jubilee year of connection with the RAAF,’ said Robbie, who served with the air force in radar during the Second World War. ‘She said to me “I understand there are certain other people celebrating their silver jubilee this year” and she gave me that smile that would soften a navvy’s heart”.