Rob, standing on the roof of his cab (to get mobile reception no doubt!), called into Jon Cuthill’s Radio Solent programme, to let everyone know that his parents used to own the Beach Hotel (where the garden of the Mill Bay is now) and they told him that when clearing out some of the hotel’s paperwork, they found documentation of the time the Russian Royal family stayed there.
That’s another one to add to the list of famous people who stayed in Ventnor.