A VISIT TO GOVERNMENT HOUSE
Time for one more adventure – in a different location The term of office of Jersey’s Lieutenant-Governor, Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton, comes to end at the end of June. He talked to Alasdair Crosby
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s this edition of RURAL goes to print, plans for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee are well under way and the main festivities will already have happened shortly before the publication date of the present issue. June will be the final month in office for the Lieutenant-Governor, Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton.
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Together with Lady Dalton, they will be leaving the Island on 30 June after five and a quarter years. Asked what their future plans were after their departure, he said: ‘I’m told I’m going to be retiring. I think that’s probably right. I’ve attempted to retire four times so far.
‘We decided to go somewhere completely different: we thought we had time and capacity for one more adventure, so we decided that Scotland was the place. A new adventure in a different location, another beautiful part of the British Isles. We shall be living near Stirling in Perthshire, an area of the country we think is beautiful, open and fresh.
