OT - Has any famous (historical or not) people visited your venue?

I am getting married at buckden towers in cambridgeshire from wikipedia.......

• Henry III in 1248
• Edward I in 1291
• Richard III in 1483
• Lady Margaret Beaufort (mother of Henry VII) in 1501
• Queen Katherine of Aragon - resided here from July 1533 to May 1534
• Henry VIII & Catherine Howard in 1541
• James I in 1619
• Prince Regent in 1814

Hope H2b does not agree with chopping off of heads!

I thought more people would be interested in who had been there before them?

What a good idea for a thread, unfortunately I got married in a modern theatre building and the only people to have been there befroe my wedding would have been perfomers in the theatre below my function room , including flippin Bradley Walsh on the night who talked so much his show overran and delayed my entertainment starting !!

I'm not sure anyone famous or historical would have ever visited my venue let alone been married there!

Though I do know that the house (it's now a hotel) was built by the Fuller family of Fuller's brewery, which is pretty cool as Fuller's London Pride is my favourite ale, and the Fuller's brewery is in Chiswick, where I grew up

yes!

Lillie Langtry spent the night at my venue I am sure i read somewhere!

Henry VIII and Dick Turpin at ours

My venue was owned by the Mr Bryant the founder of Bryant & May matches, does that count

I just thought it would be something interesting and might spark some inspiration......

I am rather sure that no famous people have been to the village hall! unless you think john major counts...

Oh, this is right up my street! Whenever we book a wedding at a very old venue, the first thing I do is research it's history, and see who was there before me.  I am a huge history buff. Thinking about the figures in history that were at your venue before you must give you goosebumps :)

Danny Le Rue used to live at our venue

Vintage_Mini:

yes!

 

Lillie Langtry spent the night at my venue I am sure i read somewhere!

 

Ooh is that the Alverbank?  I think she stayed there whenever Edward VII used to go over to the Island to visit his mother!!

The 1966 England World cup squadn stayed at our venue!

I'm getting married in a 12th century castle, there's 3000 years worth of history! It was once held by Henry II.

Paul Gascoigne married Sheryl at ours! Hopefully we'll do much better!! Robbie Williams also hired it to host a party a few years back!!

There have been many, many famous things going on at ours :)