Overview
- Hutt’s death at 91 was reported Monday, with his daughter attributing it to heart failure complicated by pneumonia and sepsis and starting a GoFundMe for funeral costs.
- He became a fixture at royal events in Union Jack attire and camped outside St Mary’s Hospital for the births of Prince George and Princess Charlotte after years of similar vigils.
- Family accounts and local reports describe a wider record of activism that included a 1997 protest where he chained himself to a bus to push London Transport toward wheelchair-accessible vehicles.
- He also campaigned for St Bart’s Hospital funding, pensioner bus passes, public toilet access, the NHS, and the restoration of Birnbeck Pier in his hometown of Weston-super-Mare.
- Media reports said senior royals were heartbroken, while relatives traced his royal loyalties to childhood during the Blitz when the King and Queen gave him a souvenir mug.