October's Hospitality Morning

We greatly enjoyed having Felicity Murdo-Smith speak to us at our last Hospitality Morning about her career at Buckingham Palace. It was fascinating to get a glimpse of life at Buckingham Palace seen through the eyes of the young Felicity, who started her working life fresh out of secretarial college as a junior secretary in the Press Office.

After working for the Palace for forty years (she retired as a Senior Information Officer in 2002), discretion seems to come naturally to Felicity, but we were still amused by her anecdotes of people calling up the Palace with claims of being related to the Royal Family or with somewhat naive questions. Felicity discussed her role in organising the Royal Family's public engagements including overseas tours and incoming State Visits and described some of her highlight moments, most especially when she accompanied the Royal Family onboard the Royal Yacht.