I was at school with Andew Manze, the conductor, not that I knew him really.
And in my time at a Cambridge College there were loads of well known people floating about, and children of them too. One parent was an actress I've had a terrible crush on since the age of about 12. One day she happened to be on the premises and everywhere you went men were swooning about whispering, and trying to be professional.
I had an argument with another famous TV actress over something trivial. She wasn't very pleasant so I was forced to play the "I have no idea who you are but you're not getting special treatment" card, and that didn't go down well. I did know who she was. Don't regret it though.
Quite a few famous people attended as well in their own right, and they would appear from time to time. You never knew quite who you'd bump into, which was one reason I stayed in my office as much as possible.
I went to lunch once and got shouted at by some security guards dressed in black. And asked to go another way. There'd been a helicopter landing a few minutes previously. I don't know who that was, I didn't ask!
Oh, and one Master was C, the ex head of MI6. The staff, of course, varied from "ordinary folk" like me to Nobel prize winners and everything in between, but unless you looked them up and knew, nobody was likely to tell you. Didn't matter really, they all came and had a coffee and a chat about how to read email on iPhones or whatever just the same.
All good fun.
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