One of our Coastal Education and Research Foundation [CERF] Trustees and Journal of Coastal Research (JCR) Editorial Board Members, Professor Allan Williams (University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Swansea, U.K.), recently had the honour of meeting Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Professor Williams was one of 150 Winston Churchill Fellowship members selected out of more than 5,000 to attend and meet her at a reception given at Buckingham Palace. The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust offers Fellowships to British citizens who want to develop their talents, ideas, and expertise abroad, resulting in knowledge sharing on return to the U.K., and is open to people from all walks of life. Professor Williams went to New Zealand and Australia for two months in 1992, to look at coastal processes/conservation management practices in these countries. Since then, he has continued being active in this field having published several books and more than 300 papers (as well as a few novels, short stories, and poems!).