A Liverpool pensioner has been regaling tales of the times he spent with The Queen, fondly remembering Her Majesty from when he worked as her butler.
Former farmer Tommy Walsh, who also spent some years working in Australia, progressed to serving royalty after starting a career as a butler at the five-star Mayfair hotel Grosvenor House upon his return from Down Under nearly 50 years ago. He’s still in the industry now and he last served the long-ruling monarch as recently as November 2019, he told the Liverpool Echo.
He vividly remembers the first time he met the Queen, although it probably wasn’t one of the finer moments of his long career. He revealed: “I was standing by a red curtain and up the stair case they came – the Queen, the Queen’s Mother, Princess Diana – and it was all the white clothing and all this jewellery.
