Have you ever had a meal or drink when a personality is also in the building

My sister met Prince Charles and Camilla on a walkabout in Cambridge- apparently he is very short - I had no idea until she told me.

In the sixties we used to go to Sandown Races in the winter. Sid James was always there. Have autographs of Virginia McKenna, Burt Lancaster, Julia Andrews and many other celebs who used to go there on special Variety Club meetings.
The Queen and especially the Queen Mother were there most Saturdays. The Queen Mum stopped one day to speak to my Mum.
I was stationed near Windsor during the war so often saw the Royal family.

Staying in a hotel in Amsterdam i saw Henry Cooper in the lobby. Another hotel in Northern Ireland we saw Russell Watson eating dinner alone. On holiday in the Lake District Peter Kay was lunching with his family. That same holiday we stopped at Little Chef and Patrick Moore was eating with his female assistant. I stood behind George Best at the airport. I've met Jeffery Archer's wife Mary when I won a competition. Politician Peter Bottomley was also at my house and had his photo taken with our cat!

Seamus Heaney, long before he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, would occasionally visit where I worked. He was a really lovely man who always took time for a chat with me.

Socially Pete Murray (anybody remember him?!!) and Judi Dench. Business route, Prince Phillip, Charles Kennedy and Mrs Thatcher. Also attended a royal garden party where the RF were in abundance though I never got close to them. Very pleasant occasion. Had an invitation for this year but the function was cancelled, of course. Believe I'm now on priority list for next year. Believe it might be cancelled again. June seems a bit too soon for full recovery.

Peter Dean (pete beale eastenders) in our local garden centre, Paul Martin (Flog it) in our local Tesco (he lives near by) used to bump into Anthony Head regularly in our local PO. Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal team at a wedding in Swansea ( I was at the wedding they were just staying at the hotel).
I have selfies with Ed Sheeran, Alfie Boe and Ronan Keeting. And I had afternoon tea with David Essex - oh that twinkle in his eye! Oh and a red carpet walk with the cast of Bridget Jones baby - that was fun

I have trouble knowing who most of these people are so certainly wouldn’t recognise them !

I do have a friend who was recently at a party ( not that recently obviously due to Covid ) She spent some time taking with Paul McCartney but didn’t know it was him until her friend asked her what she had talked about with Paul McCartney !

Prince Harry at the reading M4 services with a sidekick. He bought a baguette ???

As a student in Manchester I saw Olivia Newton John in a shop looking through a box containing ‘seconds’ of knickers. She drew a silent little crowd of fascinated onlookers before realising she’s been spotted and rushing to the till with handfuls of colourful bargains.

Ooh, I just realised it was meant to be in a restaurant !

John Lennon and Yoko Ono walking down Burlington Arcade where I was dressing a shop window. Alan Bates, Peter O'Tooles wife, Alan Clarke of the Hollies, who all used to come into another shop where I worked. Also Petulia Clark in Regent street, and several famous models . But this is all way back in the 70's of course ! Nowadays I might see a well-known actor in the country where I now live.

I passed Derek Jacobi pushing a shopping trolley in my local Coop. He was appearing in Hamlet at the theatre across the road. He looked very tired! I went to see the play a couple of days later. Magnificent actor. Couldn't get the picture of him doing his shopping out of my head though.

Oh yes, once, when a ralley came through, we had the whole Michelin team in, exclusive, no one else, their celebrations were hilarious and involved cleaning up a lot of squirty cream afterwards

Years ago, outside Heathrow in winter... someone said, " Like your hat"... turned round... it was Rod Stewart... who was wearing one very similar.

Once spent all afternoon at Northants cricket chatting to a bloke... after he left found out it was Eric Clapton.

Had Lunch with Ilie Nastase... halfway through Boris walked in and joined the table for a drink... first time I'd ever seen him. Anyway, Ilie asked me if I'd like a signed pic of him. He was always my favourite Tennis player... so I said yes and he signed it... he put... to sexy Sue.... a treasured possession from days gone by !! Sigh !!

We were running a Restaurant in Nottingham in the 80s, guests included Jim Henson, when the local theatre had a Muppet Christmas Panto, Les Dennis and Robert Plant, can't remember others at the moment

A couple of years ago members of the rock band Thin Lizzie were on the same flight as us to Dublin, but also for the 2 years running we have seen Emma Thompson whilst we were carol singing on York Station ( on the same Sunday each year) both times she has slipped a note into our collecting tin and was happy to chat! We weren’t there this year, I wonder if she was!

Tom Stoppard outside a theatre at The Edinburgh Festival in the seventies, quietly charismatic, Celia Imrie in a queue for tickets at Stratford upon Avon, modest demeanour; George Whatshisname the telly architect on a train to London, wonderful blue eyes; Stewart Grainger at London Airport, rather over- ripe but still recognisable as the hunk I’d lusted after as a teenager in Scaramouche; Cyril Fletcher, the comedian, hired to encourage sales at a garden centre in Rugby, Warwickshire, down at heel shoes and cringeworthy demeanour of false jollity, I felt sorry for him. I would add that I am not famous, only to old students in the town where I taught who come up to me in supermarkets and say,” You’re Mrs Soandso, you used to teach me. I’m embarrassed to admit I only remember the naughty ones or the ones who were good at my subject.

I imagine I wouldn't recognise anyone as a celeb, if they looked familiar I'd probably say hello and try and remember why I knew them. I have shaken hands with Prince Charles though and another time saw the Queen and Princess Di at a Buck House garden party. Probably wouldn't have recognised them out of context though.

Many years ago DH was friends with Patrick Malahide and we often visited each others homes.

When on holiday we were sitting in a cafe when a man walked by - DH recognised him but couldn't think of his name and then said loudly "that's Danny La Rue", the man turned round and said "Yes - it is"

At an airport we had just got off the plane and were standing at the carousel waiting for our luggage and realised we were standing next to Martin Clunes

I really hate these posts - and we get them on local radio also. People come up with ‘I saw xyz driving on the M4’, etc. That’s not meeting a celeb.

Sorry, didn't read the question...as my teacher's used to say! There was a lunch at the polo day and the charity lunch in London was in a hotel!

Many years ago I worked in the Carlton Tower Hotel in |Sloane Square, London, where many famous people stayed. I had tea one day with Jimmy Tarbuck, keeping him company while he waited for a press conference. But best of all was having my hand kissed by both the wonderful ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev and his friend Prince Radziville, after I had done Nureyev a favour. I was quite overcome!

I went to a charity polo match about 10 years ago and Prince Chatles said hello to me! The boys were both playing, it was quite an event. I was at a charity lunch in London when Judith Chalmers started to talk to me . She introduced me to her husband, Nigel Starmer Smith, who said " You must meet my good friend Bill" and who should it be but dear Bill Turnbull. Such a lovely man .

I once walked past David Walliams and Rob Bryden with my bf and told him as we had passed them, he insisted we double back and speak to them and we had a chat. When we went to see Little Britain live Barbara Windsor and Steve McFadden were in the row behind us, and when I went to the loo I walked past Max Beesley on the stairs. My mum got talking to Russ Abbot in Oxford and told him my brother was a teddy boy called Vince (early 80s) so he invited us to meet him before the show and in the interval my brother had a photo taken with him. My son and I spotted Tom Ward (Silent Witness) sitting on his own in a pub reading a newspaper. I queued behind Edward Woodward and his wife Michele Dotrice in WH Smith in Banbury. When I worked in a BP Garage in 2003 the whole of Showaddywaddy piled in to buy drinks and snacks. I pretended that I didn’t recognise them because I was so shy! Finally I spotted Sean Locke walking across a car park in a service station on the M6, I kept trying to get my son to look but he missed him because of his damn Nintendo DS! I still wind him up about that, we’re both huge fans of 8 out of 10 cats.

In the 90’s DH and I had a long weekend in New York. We went into a very quiet restaurant on the Sunday evening and there were only two other tables occupied. The nearest one had Lulu dining with a friend. We flew back from that trip with the designer Jeff Banks at the front of the plane.