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Born and bred in Wakefield, Mick Taylor was educated at Thornes House School and vividly recalls a royal visit to the town by the reigning monarch in her jubilee year of 1977 when he was just five years old.
The queen's visit to Wakefield was a strange thing for a five year old such as myself. Thousands of people lining the streets to see a woman in a car baffled me back then.
I think she was on her tour at the time for the Silver Jubilee, and never had so many people been on the streets of Wakefield since Trinity won the Challenge Cup final in 1968 or the Championship in 1968.
There was a street party on the Co-op car park that happened to coincide with my birthday. I was well miffed I can tell you. I asked my mum who all the people were and what they where doing here.
She told me that they had all come to my birthday party. It went on for hours with people playing guitars and dancing in the street and never in the 24 years I have been around since then have I experienced anything like what happened on that day.
I have never understood the popularity of the Royals but the visit to Wakefield was one which I will never forget and one which I am constantly reminded of because I believed that half of a city's population turned up at my birthday party and made me most popular person in the city, even if it was for just the one day.
Mick Taylor, 2002
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