Simeon Rosset reflects on his 20-year career as a butler to the rich and famous. This is a nice piece with great visuals. Enjoy.
A modern-day equivalent of Downton Abbey's Mr Carson, Simeon has worked for nearly 20 years as a butler serving a galaxy of stars, royalty and the odd billionaire.
The 37-year-old, from Kent, has spent much of his working life in castles and palaces and on superyachts and shooting estates.
He's provided services at house parties and gala dinners to celebrities such as Kylie Minogue, Bono, Quincy Jones, Cliff Richard, David Beckham and Cilla Black.
But for Simeon, who now runs Scotland's only training academy for butlers, there's one star who stands out.
“Of all the different celebrities and stars I've met, I've never met anyone with quite the personal aura of Pavarotti,” he says.
The Italian opera singer, who died in 2007, was widely regarded as one of the finest tenors of the 20th Century, and one of the most successful.
Simeon says: “I was his personal butler while he was performing in Kent in 2004, and he was this incredible megastar.
“He had a complicated rider, a list of requirements – as most celebrities do – because these things progress as they get through their levels of fame.
“But once we got everything in place, he wasn't difficult to look after at all.”
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