It's well known in Hay that famous people are likely to be wandering around town during the Festival, browsing in the bookshops and taking in the atmosphere like anyone else whose visiting.
Last week, Mary Fellowes (of Rest for the Tyred and Broad Street Book Centre), popped up to Spar for a bit of emergency shopping. On the way out, she slipped on some ice cream on the step, straight into the arms of a bearded gentleman who brushed her down and made sure she was all right. She asked him if he was enjoying the Festival, and he said he'd been wanting to come for years.
Later, the same bearded gentleman was seen browsing in Broad Street Book Centre.
The lady who'd seen him is one of the stalwart members of St Mary's Church, and when she saw Mary, she said "I see you've had a famous person in the shop."
"Really? Who was that then?"
"Rowan Williams - the Archbishop of Canterbury! He's on a private visit, very low key. He came into the church to look at the flower festival and we met him then."
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