My first brush with famous people.....
I was very young "commis" waiter at the Quirinale Hotel in Rome, and I was asked to help prepare and serve the buffet in the small function room annexed to the Rome Opera house.
During the interval, of the "AIDA" I was gobsmacked to see enter in the room most of the top Italian politicians of the time, the Pres., the Pm Aldo Moro (The guy that got kidnapped and executed by the red brigades years later), and the secretary general of the UN U Thant. Plus actors and actresses.
After that........
Willi Brandt in Bonn.
Franz Beckenbauer
James Garner In LA
Renato Pagliari (Renee and Renato fame.QE II)
Princess Anne, in Mold of all places (Clwyd Teathre)
Bruno Conti in our home town.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettuno
And I am sort of related to Gareth Jones (Gaz Top) being my ex wife's brother...
Oh... Nearly forgot..... Cardinal Ottaviani was my great-great uncle....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_Ottaviani
