Word: footmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this magnificent banquet at which you had close to 200 people at a single table, you sit in the middle, the Queen and I on one side and Nancy and Prince Philip on the other. When the toasts are over, the two of us exit down that table. The footmen pull the chairs back, and the Lord Chamberlain precedes us walking backward. I suddenly saw this tiny figure beside me walking along waving her hand. She's steering him. She said to me, 'You know, we don't get those chairs even, and he could fall over...
...almost as well staked out. The Sun stationed 40 reporters with walkie-talkies all along the route, and the Daily Mail had 25. The only crime story remotely connected with the wedding broke on the day itself. It came out that ten days earlier, in Gloucestershire, two Buckingham Palace footmen, Stephen Beevis, 20, and Andrew Gildersleeve, 22, had been nabbed in a stolen Land Rover carrying 80 sticks of gelignite, batteries and assorted pieces of mining equipment. The story was kept under wraps, but Scotland Yard searched the Buckingham Palace quarters where Beevis and Gildersleeve lived before handing the case...