He was also sent good luck messages from actresses Ruth Wilson and Olivia Colman, West Ham’s Jarrod Bowen and former Hammer Carlton Cole.
Over the course of Mr Quirke’s five-day walk, he will head to Islington in north London, where his mum was born, and to the headquarters of her theatre school in Buckinghamshire.
“My mum’s career has been so iconic and so many places have formed her life – it’s going to be a really emotional, beautiful journey,” her son said.
“It’s moments from her career and her personal life – Islington, where she grew up with Linda, to Windsor where mum got her MBE, past many Pauline Quirke Academies locations.”
Speaking to BBC Breakfast, Robson said she had known her co-star’s son “since he was in the womb” and said she thought dementia was “the worst thing ever”.
