Costumes and curios in Fairlynch's Jubilee display
Budleigh Salterton is not generally spoken of as having been officially honoured by many royal visitors who stayed in the town, although HRH The Prince of Wales - later to become Edward VIII - is recorded as having visited the town in 1914 and some years later, in May 1921, he played on the East Devon Golf Club's course. However, judging by what the author R.F. Delderfield wrote in his essay 'Budleigh Salterton and Mrs.Simpson', published in his Overture for Beginners (1970) it's likely that after 1936 the town would not have wanted to remember that particular visitor. And the romantic but furtive walks made by the late Diana, Princess of Wales along Budleigh beach, as described in Anna Pasternak's book Princess in Love , were never publicised by local residents. Nearby Sidmouth on the other hand boasts of its past glories associated with Queen Victori...