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Initially,
of course, this matter of security caused us not a little
self-consciousness, although we quickly came to realise that the
Palace staff were not in the least interested in where we’d been.
Whether carrying bags of shopping, punnets of strawberries or
shifting furniture we were quickly recognised and then dismissed as
a threat! Now we are
completely relaxed about daily passing through these levels of
manned security, after all it must be accepted as normal when living
in a Palace no matter what the time of day or night!
Perhaps it has taken our friends just a little longer to come
to terms with the fact that, all along, we have been determined that
our apartment should be treated as home. We want our family and
friends to come and go as casually as they please as if we lived at
Acacia Way in Anytown.
However,
our visitors can still sometimes be shocked, nay traumatised, to
occasionally meet a costumed guide in a dark corridor en route to
conduct a Palace tour. Even
those of us who may expect it can suffer momentary shock upon such
an encounter, particularly if one’s thoughts are elsewhere!
In
general the Palace is regarded by the staff (around three hundred)
and residents (another twelve live on the periphery) as a small
village in atmosphere, and this makes for a very comfortable
existence.
Dennis & Sylvia McGuinnes live in the centre of Hampton Court Palace.
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