Ashley Hicks
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33 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 5 Jun
Ashley Hicks’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I feel her presence, and she's often in my dreams.
I don't live in a mausoleum to Diana.
I live in this world, and my life has changed as well.
But you can never forget the people who touched your heart.
Hello, I'm Ashley Hicks, and I'm a designer of interiors and objects for them, and also a photographer of historic interiors, and I've written a book about Buckingham Palace's interiors.
We would go and watch them ride back into the palace and We'd go and give the horses sugar lumps and carrots. And then we would go up and have a Coca-Cola because we were children and some sandwiches with our mothers saying, now make sure you eat enough because that's all the lunch you're getting. How were the sandwiches at the palace? They were pretty good, actually.
There were Marmite ones, which, you know, obviously are very good if you like Marmite. And if you don't even know what Marmite is, then you need to study a bit of English culture.
I mean, the interesting thing about the White House, in a way, is the amount that you see it in movies and on TV. Yes. I mean, that Oval Office. I mean, I feel like I've lived there, don't you? I do. I mean, literally, I know how to get to the secretary's room. I know how to get to the West Wing. Whereas Buckingham Palace, generally speaking, people got no idea.
There's very little of it that gets seen. I mean, you can buy a ticket and go around and look at it, but then you don't see very many rooms.
Well, it was great fun, you know. It was slightly – every time I wanted to move an object or move a chair or something, there were shrieks of horror, you know. Somebody would have to come scuttling along with a pair of white gloves for me to put on. Then I was told, oh, don't lift a chair by its arms, you know, all this kind of thing.
Oh, I don't know. Are there 30, something like that? Are there really 775? Maybe there are. That's what I've been told. Maybe there are.
Exactly.
Yeah. Is that the pool house? I think that is the pool. Have you been inside? No, no, I haven't. And are you curious about it? Not especially. So far as I know, it's a fairly ordinary swimming pool. But maybe it's magnificent. Who knows? Maybe it's worthy of your president-elect. Maybe it's entirely gold. I don't know. Who knows?
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