Who's the most famous person you've met, and what were they like?

Daddima - what confidence! I'm impressed.

DH was at school with Prince Charles.
(Auchenshoogle Academy.)

Juggernaut,sorry I upset you about your friend Cilla. Forgot to mention my friend went to the Cavern in the 60s,said "Our Cilla"really had attitude.But I'm sure if I'd met her we'd have had a Lorra Lorra laughs ?.

Billy Graham stopped his car and asked my friend and I to be photographed walking along village Street with him, we were waiting at the bus stop, as we were going to one of his rallies in Manchester later that week we recognised him.

Met Princess Anne, her husband and dogs in a muddy field gateway at a horse event when I was struggling to helped aged Mum through mud, they were quick to assess the situation and moved out for us, Princes Anne was petite and much prettier than her photos.

I used to work for a solicitor and we had a couple of well known clients, one actor arrived told me his name and then said I probably recognised him from....then went into a long list of all the TV programmes he had been in. Tony Robinson I took an instant dislike to although others tell me how nice he was. I was on switchboard duty one day and had to ring Peter Ustinov, I didn't usually use the switchboard and once he was on the line I managed to cut him off - twice! When I got through the third time I was full of apologies and expected a tongue lashing about how important and busy he was - he was absolutely charming, just said he understood and that he was just sitting reading a boring script for a film he probably wasn't going to do.

Elenkalubleton
Apology accepted. Thanks.

Once met Willy Rushton at Galleons Leap (Gills Lap) on Ashdown Forest when he was reading Pooh for Jakanory. Larger than life! Forgot to ask him the rules for Mornington Crescent. it still confuses me!

George W Bush and his wife Laura at No 10, Downing Street. Talked in a group with them for 15 minutes. Tried to avoid it but couldn't. They made a good, humorous double act. To think that I thought then (2003) that America couldn't elect a worse president!

I was introduced to the duchess of Kent in the 60s, she was lovely. Further back in time, Shirley Bassey, Joan Reagan, Beverly sisters to name a few.

anifrance there no "rules" for Mornington Crescent, it's just a sort of spoof game and an opportunity for the panellists to indulge in a bit of sillyness!

I was in the same dorm at school with Anna Calder Marshall (also mother of Athos aka Tom Burke)
Used to see Patrick Mcgoohan of The Prisoner and Dangerman fame when he came to collect his daughter from the same school.
Met Ludovic Kennedy on a flight to Tenerife. We were staying in the same hotel. He spent the mornings tapping away on his old typewriter writing All in the Mind - A Farewell to God, and joined us every evening for drinks and dinner. Such an interesting man. His trousers kept falling down as his belt had broken so we went shopping for a replacement . Sadly by that time his wife Moira Shearer was very unwell.