Originally Posted by
Not Long Here
And you had to pay for it!!
Did we ever! The Princess M came to Coningsby in lateish 1973 and behaved exactly as described by others. Three spoons of soup, pushed the main course round the plate a few times, turned to the staish and said "let's skip pudding and go for a smoke in the anteroom". Luckily for me I had landed the job of looking after the aircraft for the flypast so it was working blue, cycle round the back of the airfield and in at the crash gate to where the aircraft were parked on the dispersals. Unluckily for my wife she was one of those press ganged for the non-eating lunch. The soup never got down to the bottom of the tables, nor did the main course, so she went hungry and I got a stonking addition to my mess bill.