Embarrassing questions by tourists revealed

London, Aug. 11: Tourists visiting Britain’s historic sites often end up asking many embarrassing questions from the guide and topping the list of such queries is regarding one of Britain’s most sombre monarchs, according to English Heritage.

A tourist to Queen Victoria’s summer palace Osborne House, on the Isle of Wight, admitted they had come to catch a glimpse of rock-n-roll couple Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne.

They had come to the house, where the monarch died in 1901, thinking it was the home of the Black Sabbath frontman and his wife. They flummoxed guides by inquiring: "Is this where Sharon and Ozzie actually live?" The question tops the list of gaffes made by visitors to England’s historic sites, but it wasn’t the only embarrassing faux pas.

A young visitor to Osborne House wanted to know whether her nine children all ‘’have the same dad’’, English Heritage said.

A visitor to Whitby Abbey, North Yorkshire, asked a guide whether they were looking around Dracula’s castle. Another tour guide was left scratching his head when a group of children asked to see the monkeys at Cleeve Abbey in Somerset. The group had been told that it had been the home of monks for 350 years.

English Heritage released the quirky questions in a bid to coax shy tourists to ask guides if they have a query about the building they have come to see. "We’ve all had the experience of wanting to ask a question and regretting not doing so when the moment has passed," the Telegraph quoted Tina Corrim, head of education at English Heritage, as saying.

—ANI