Sometimes I feel as though I’m starring in my own romcom, complete with fairy-tale castle and royal history. People are amazed when I tell them I live at the Tower of London, and that my soldier boyfriend works there – and they assume it’s where we met. But I actually met George on Tinder.
It was such an amazing coincidence. When he told me he was based at the Tower of London, I was like, “I don’t believe it! Guess where my dad lives?” That’s right. The Tower of London. And now I live there, too.
George is a King’s Guard, while my dad, Chris, is a Beefeater – a Yeoman Warder. Luckily, he’d said of George before he knew we were dating, “That’s what a guardsman should look like.”
George was wearing a kilt in his Tinder photo, which is a big green flag for me, so I messaged first after we’d both swiped right in 2018. Almost instantly we began speaking to each other on the phone for hours. Not particularly romantic, perhaps, but it’s our story and we love it.
At the time, I was living in university halls in London while studying English and film. I wanted to be independent, having moved from a small village in the Lancashire countryside, but I spent a lot of my free time hanging out at my dad’s house. He lives in a castle, so why wouldn’t I?
In the summer of 2020, I permanently moved in with him after feeling lonely in the first lockdown. I also wanted to save money on rent.
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