A RIGHT royal romance has led to wedding bells for a Wyre Forest couple who found love in the linen room at Buckingham Palace.

Oliver Stockley-Von Statzer and wife Angela are celebrating their majestic matrimony just four years after setting eyes on each other while working for the Windsors.

The happy couple - who walked down the aisle in Churchill last month - met when footman Oliver, 29, made a fateful visit to the linen room with a clutch of regal rags.

Angela, who worked as a housemaid, said: "We were in the linen room and a couple of friends were asking if there was anyone in the palace I liked - I said no-one. Then he came in and I said 'I like him!'

"And they told him later on that day and it just started from there - we kept on seeing each other."

But the pair, who have now moved to Angela's native Churchill, chose to keep their palatial passion under wraps to avoid the royal "rumour-mill".

Proud Oliver, 29, said: "Long-lasting palace romances are rare - it could have been just another palace romance. They often don't last long."

However, it wasn't long before the news leaked out and was a hot topic among the co-workers and employers.

"The Queen knew we were together," said Oliver, "because the people that worked closely with her would tell her what was going on in the palace.

"And just before the Countess of Wessex got married she asked me if it was true if we were together. We jokingly said we would invite her to the wedding! But, of course, the security at the palace would never allow it."

Romance blossomed for the love-struck servants during the next six months before Oliver left his post, which was one of 13 dedicated to serving the Royals.

He said: "We lived just down the corridor from each other so it was just chats in the evenings, talking about what it was like back home - even about the Kidderminster Shuttle!

"The job was a lot of hard work which is why we enjoyed spending so much time together in the evenings."

Stourport-born Angela, 23, moved back to Wyre Forest last year while her butler boyfriend returned from the capital this summer, ready for a royal wedding of his own.

The couple said the September 13 wedding, at St James the Great in Churchill, was "magical" and a reception speech by Angela's brother Alex raised some big laughs - as he had worked alongside his sister and brother-in-law at the palace.

The couple have taken office jobs in Kidderminster and are currently house hunting after a honeymoon cruise around the Mediterranean.

And Wolverhampton-born Oliver said his three-year stint looking after the Royals has put him in good stead for domestic bliss.

"It sets you up for life, it's a bit like the Army - people always comment that I am well turned out, and I don't mind ironing the shirts!"