England suffered one of its worst peacetime disasters when floods battered the east coast, claiming hundreds of lives on the night of January 31, almost 70 years ago.

The late Queen Elizabeth II visited the aftermath, witnessing the devastation caused by floods in the Norfolk area on February 2, 1953 - and now her grandson William, whose countryside home of Anmer Hall is near to Snettisham, appeared to want to pay his own respects.