Martha Kearney keeps bees and is allergic to their stings (she talks about this in episode 2 of her show).
As I say the garden at the Chateau is very small and very close to other gardens so I couldn't keep bees but given a large enough gap between hive and homes there would be little if any noticeable difference between keeping a hive and just the background numbers of bees in the community anyway.
Social bees (and wasps) tend to only congregate near their colony and will only swarm when the hive is overcrowded or the queen is disturbed. Solitary bees will only sting as matter of last resort. Many honey bee varieties have no sting at all. when I had the wasp nest (and the potential of multiple stings) I never got jagged.