“Every baby that’s born, people say to me ‘it’s only another baby’, but this is a royal baby – there’s a difference.
“My wife tells me I’m mad. I have a waterproof outfit, a tarpaulin over the bench, decorated with union jacks. We call it the royal bench,” he said at the time.
Aside from the royals, Hutt also had other passions and interests.
He collected thousands of signatures in support of the restoration of Birnbeck Pier, something his daughter said she was proud of.
Speaking about her father’s passing, Joy said: “It has been very sad, but despite his many health ailments he continued to do everything he loved.
“To reach the age of 91 was a miracle, overcoming kidney cancer and multiple surgeries, each time he came out fighting but heart failure along with pneumonia and sepsis took him in the end.”