Pub bounces German-speaking Beefeater

NORTHBOROUGH, England, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- A British army veteran says he was thrown out of pub recently for speaking to his daughter in German.

Tom Sharp, 71, told The Daily Telegraph he wasn't sure what was going on after the landlady allegedly flew into a rage as he spoke to his adult daughter in German.

"I honestly couldn't believe she was telling us we couldn't speak German," said Sharp, who was ejected from the Packhorse in the village of Northborough despite the protests of fellow patrons.

Sharp spent 26 years in the army and has since been a Beefeater, one of the ceremonial guards at the Tower of London. He told the newspaper he is married to a German native and his daughter was raised speaking German so he didn't see any harm in shifting to "Deutsch" once in a while.

"It's not as if we were always speaking German and being rude," Sharp said. "I could understand if it was all the time and looking at her as if we were plotting something, but we weren't."