Sir David Attenborough is perhaps the nation’s least starry celebrity, having spent a lifetime focusing more on Mother Nature’s wonders than the vacuous world of showbiz.
The broadcaster and biologist, who celebrates his 100th birthday next week on May 8, has often credited a low-key life in his ‘favourite place on earth’ for his longevity.
The near centenarian has resided in the same relatively modest house, once shared with his late wife Jane and two children, Robert and Susan, since the early fifties on a quiet, leafy street just back from the River Thames in Richmond, South West London.
The riverside town currently
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