Saturday, August 4, 2012

Zara adds to my Royal collection

Thursday 2nd August 2012

You can tell the tiredness has started to set in now as I get my days mixed up.

Ok it was my turn to take my seat at the Team GB Headquarters, here we email maintenance with queries from the Athletes and their rooms, Ticket requests,
ensuring the selected Athletes are on time for press interviews etc.
 Today I had to collect 12 Medal boxes for Equestrian, Swimming and Cycling, to put there valuable Olympic Medals in.

One of those boxes was for the  lovely Zara Phillips, who came into the office wanting to know how she could get home to Gloucestershire. Earlier I had another 2 of Zara’s team members asked for help getting to their trains.
Would I really tell Zara to jump on the Javelin Train to get her to Euston and there to Gloucestershire ?? Not a chance, but not to be presumptuous and assume that she wanted a car to take her home, I asked her what she would prefer.
 What a great sport she was, she assumed that we could not get a car in the village even for her, but having made a call to the Powers That Be, we were able to send Zara off home in a car and not via the train line.

What was she like I here you ask?? A really lovely, friendly and laid back lady who had time to laugh and joke with me, even though she was shattered….
Glory: Zara Phillips shows off her silver medal from the equestrian


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