A Waterloo woman has still got the cake commemorating the day she met the Queen, nearly twenty years on.
Jacquie Gilmartin, from the Dodson and Amigo Estate, was working for Eurostar in Waterloo Station in 2004, when the Queen visited for the tenth anniversary.
Jacquie held the door open for the Queen and Prince Philip as they came through security, but was so busy she forgot to curtsey.
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“She was really nice – she gave me a little smile as she went through,” Jacquie said.
They were given memorial cakes to commemorate the event, and Jacquie still has hers, eighteen years on. “It’s just a nice memory,” she said.
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