Friday 21 October 2022
Happy National Honey Day! BBKA President Anne Rowberry went to London yesterday and presented a jar of honey to the King.
She presented herself to security at the side entrance to Buckingham Palace and asked if she could take her jar of honey in? After explaining who she was one of the security team decided to call the office and was told to admit her. She met a member of the King’s household who assured her that the Head of Household would make sure the jar, along with a short note about National Honey Day, was on King Charles III’s breakfast table in the morning.
As Anne exited the palace, the police officer, who had tried to send her away, explained that in 23 years nobody except her had been allowed to give their gift to staff.
Happy National Honey Day! BBKA President Anne Rowberry went to London yesterday and presented a jar of honey to the King.
She presented herself to security at the side entrance to Buckingham Palace and asked if she could take her jar of honey in? After explaining who she was one of the security team decided to call the office and was told to admit her. She met a member of the King’s household who assured her that the Head of Household would make sure the jar, along with a short note about National Honey Day, was on King Charles III’s breakfast table in the morning.
As Anne exited the palace, the police officer, who had tried to send her away, explained that in 23 years nobody except her had been allowed to give their gift to staff.
Anne then went to the House of Commons to present another jar of honey to her constituency MP Wera Hobhouse.
She was still in question time so we toured the halls and even went through the tunne…