During his two hour tour of the Island he planted a sycamore tree in the grounds of Lindisfarne Priory and St Mary's Parish Church.
Remarkably, he used the same spade his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, had used to plant two sycamore trees in the Island's main square when she visited with Prince Philip 50 years ago.
Even more amazing is that 50 years earlier, Prince George who later became King George V (the Queen's grandfather), used the same spade to plant two more sycamores in the Manor House garden.
The spade had been kept all that time by the Crossman family until Lady Rose recently decided it could go on display at the Lindisfarne Heritage Centre.
Prince Edward's visit enabled him to get another step closer to a personal goal of visiting as many of Britain's islands as possible.
He arrived by helicopter right on schedule at 11am for a private visit to Lindisfarne Castle before being greeted outside the heritage centre an hour later by a crowd of about 100 well-wishers, many waving Union Jack flags.
The Berwick civic party, who were on the Island before 6.30am to ensure they were not stranded on the mainland by the tide, were then introduced to His Royal Highness.
After a quick look at a facsimile edition of the famous Lindisfarne Gospels, the Prince was given an insight into what makes Holy Island such a unique place to live, work and visit through the 'Island Life' exhibition.
"He was very impressed with the heritage centre and said he would have liked more time to look around and view all the other exhibitions," said Dick Patterson, chairman of Holy Island Community Development Trust.
The royal visitor then took time to speak to many people who had waited outside, including groups of delighted Australian and Norwegian tourists..
He then strolled through the village, accompanied by Mr Patterson who told him about the efforts made by the development trust to address the lack of social housing. They have already built five affordable houses to rent to local people, converted a property into two flats and are currently trying to raise funds to build another four houses.
At Fiddlers Green he met Peggy Teago, who at 88 is the oldest surviving resident born and bred on Holy Island and who clearly remembered the Queen's visit in 1958 when the royal yacht Britannia berthed offshore.
"I thought the Prince was a very nice young man," she said.
Prince Edward then visited Lindisfarne Limited, home of the famous Lindisfarne Mead, where he was presented with a bottle and silver salver.
He was given a tour of the bottling plant and learned about the production process before taking a small tipple himself.
Lindsay Hackett, managing director of Lindisfarne Limited, said: "He was very interested and already seemed to know quite a lot about the production process. He was especially interested in the malt whisky and displays of our produce in the shop."
A short walk was taken to the churchyard where the Prince helped plant a sycamore sapling which he hoped would fare as well as those planted by his mother and great grand-father.
He was accompanied by Brother Damian into the church where he viewed a letter of reconciliation from the Norwegian church apologising for the Viking invasion.
Following a prayer and brief look at the church's architecture it was on to the historic 11th century Lindisfarne Priory where he learned about restoration work being carried out by English Heritage and viewed the sculpture of St Cuthbert in the grounds.
With the weather worsening, the Prince headed for the sanctuary of the Lindisfarne Priory Museum before emerging a short time later to speak once more with spectators who had been patiently waiting.
Now slightly behind schedule, the Prince was whisked away by car to his waiting helicopter and on to afternoon engagements at the Woodhorn Colliery Museum, near Ashington, and Newbiggin.