Dawn French has recalled an ‘horrifyingly scary’ encounter in which she became convinced a member of the Royal Family was a witch.

The Vicar of Dibley star, 66, grew up moving around the country due to her father’s work in the Royal Air Force.

When she was four, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother visited the base they were stationed at, RAF Leconfield, with Dawn’s family selected to host her for tea.

However, the actress and comedian has now shared the meeting left her unsettled after the royal simply smiled at her.

During an appearance on This Morning this week, Dawn shared the details of the meeting and just what happened to terrify her.

Explaining how she prepared for the important meeting ahead of time, Dawn said she had to practice the protocol for meeting the royal.

Dawn French has shared she once thought a member of the Royal Family was a witch (Picture: Ken McKay/ ITV/ Shutterstock)

‘I was four. It was horrifyingly scary,’ she began.

‘We’d done curtsy practice. She came to my dad’s army base. I was expecting unicorns and crowns and neither turned up.

‘A woman in a lilac outfit, a very perfectly lovely woman [arrived], but I’m fuming [by this point].’

She then described how a ‘very scary thing happened’.

She met the Queen Mother back in 1961 (Picture: BBC Archives)

‘She smiled at me with a lovely big smile, but she had brown teeth,’ she continued.

‘When you’re four that’s a witch.

‘So, I was thinking she should not come into our house so I would not speak to her or look at her and held onto my dad’s leg the whole time.’

However, there’s a chance Dawn could have also been put off by the royal after previously admitting she didn’t like ‘posh people’.

Dawn has previously said she didn’t like ‘posh people’ like Jennifer Saunders (Picture: Mark Robert Milan/GC Images)

Last year Dawn said she initially didn’t gel with comedy partner Jennifer Saunders when they met in drama school in the 1970s.

Speaking on the Finding the Funny podcast, the comic said: ‘I didn’t really like Jen that much at the very beginning because she’s quite posh, or I thought she was but she’s not really.

‘She had a whole friendship group of way out of my league sort of people, and then I had to share a flat with her.

‘But as soon as I got rid of my prejudice about her, which I still have to this day – prejudice against posh people, they have to prove their worth to me – I thought, “She’s actually great.”

This Morning airs weekdays from 10am on ITV1.

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‘A very scary thing happened.’