Sandwiched between the North Circular Road and the Browning, Jones & Morris plumbing depot, Brent Terrace is, in every sense, a world apart from the gated celebrity estates of sunny Montecito, California.
It was here that we found the Prince of Wales back in public yesterday, adopting the time-honoured strategy of royalty in times of trouble: show, not tell.
He had come to show support for a North London church serving 50 nationalities which is operating as a makeshift vaccine centre for ethnic minorities. And he had nothing to tell . . . except warm words of support for his hosts.
‘We are all immensely proud of the role black-majority churches play,’ he told them, ‘and it is of course a profound sorrow to me to know that black communities have been hit particularly hard by this pernicious virus.’