Remember the guy who helped announce the birth of the Royal prince? Well he is back in India – visa ran out just days after announcement.

The Royal Family's footman who enjoyed world-wide fame on the day of the birth Prince George has returned to the Calcutta slum he grew up in.

Falling foul of new immigration laws, Badar Azim, a 25-year-old hospitality management graduate, has returned to his family in eastern India, where relatives beaming with pride have welcomed him home.

The young graduate accompanied the Queen's press secretary Ailsa Anderson in placing the announcement of Prince George's birth on an easel outside Buckingham Palace last week.

But just days later, his visa expired; he was unable to renegotiate his right to work in the country; and he quit his coveted post at the Royal Household. He has now arrived home - a world that perhaps couldn't be more different from the life he had lived last week.

Ironically it appears that Mr Azim, whose chronically poor family scrimped and saved every penny they had in order to educate him, has fallen foul of strict new immigration laws because of his notoriously meagre palace salary of around £14,000 a year.

How do we call this one. This is not from Grace to grass oh, it's more like from "Grace to ground" ....Na wa oh. After getting so close to heaven, man finds himself close to the doors of hell by virtue of place of birth.