* “Prince Harry is going to take one look at me and fall arse over tip, I just know it,” said Sally Curtiss, a 22-year-old pre-school teacher and member of a woman’s rugby team in Hampshire. “I have posters of him all around my flat. He’s such a dish.”
* “I’d love to give her highness a right proper twirl around the floor,” said 70-year-old George Tompkins, a retired coal miner from Newcastle. “These old bones ain’t what they used to be and I do creak a bit. I hope she won’t mind.”
* “It’s going to be against the collar, but I’m tough,” said 43-year-old Melinda Bennett, who runs a stall selling handmade papers, fine stationery and cards at the Ayelsbury Market. “I’m up for a bit of bubbly and fancy food!”
* “I’ve always loved history so I took the test as a bit of a lark,” said Peter Thistle, a 51-year-old skilled decorator at the Wedgwood Factory in Stoke-on-Trent. “I just sat down with my biscuit and tea when Bob’s your uncle, the programme people called. They didn’t have to tell me twice!”
* “I’ve always believed I was a long-lost relation to the Royal Family,” said Millicent Jones, a 29-year-old hair stylist from Birmingham. “My friends always tell me I have such a royal bearing, and of course I look just like Princess Diana.”
* “My Mum and Dad are so proud!” said 26-year-old Rosalind Watkins, who just opened a children’s bookstore, theatre and café in London’s Bloomsbury district. “My chums thought I was mental when I studied for the test, but here I am. I can’t wait to get started!”
* “I only took the test because the blokes down at the Feathers didn’t think I’d know anything,” said 49-year-old Douglas Simms, a lorry driver from London’s East End. “Hard cheese to them, I say!”
* “They’re such lovely people,” said 33-year-old Mary Willoughby, manager of a riverfront restaurant in Cambridge. “They’re always so nice when they come in during the Regatta. What a lark to be the one sitting at the table being waited on for a change!”
* “Rock the palace!” said 24-year-old Roger Bingley, a performance artist, musician and poet from Bath.
* “Oh my goodness! I never thought they’d pick me!” said 64-year-old Penelope Pringle, a curator at the Royal Albert Museum in Exeter. “Everyone here is rooting for me!”
* “It’s about bloody time something went right for me,” said 47-year-old Gert Kellogg, an auto mechanic and part-time barmaid from Blackpool.
* “Chuck and Liz won’t know what to make of me!” said 33-year-old Paul George, who owns a fish-and-chips take-away in Liverpool. “Beatles Forever!”
Visit the contestants' video journals at http://www.bbc.co.uk/ and read exclusive interviews with them and programme personnel Fridays in The Independent, http://www.independent.co.uk/
P.S. The castle in the photo above is "home away from home" for these lucky 12 people for the next few weeks!
1 comment:
Bloody good article love....soft cheese to you!
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