Miriam Margolyes isn’t exactly known for being quiet (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/REX)
Miriam Margolyes is famous for being outspoken – but it once got her in trouble with royalty.
The 81-year-old actress – who often comes out with expletives and sexual innuendos on TV – was told to ‘be quiet’ by Queen Elizabeth II herself.
Miriam assures she had no intention of being so loud, but when the Queen – who died on September 8, aged 96 – told her to lower the volume, she was taken aback.
‘It shocked me because I hadn’t quite realised how rude I was being,’ Miriam began.
‘I was waffling on when she was talking to somebody else, and I was overriding that rudely.’
She continued to The Times: ‘But it wasn’t deliberate – I wasn’t meaning to be rude.
The Queen once told Miriam to ‘be quiet’ as she was talking over her (Picture: PA)
‘I say what I think and I don’t care how it comes out. Sometimes it comes out in a way that people find very upsetting and offensive, and I’m sorry about that, but what I say is the truth.’
This isn’t the first time the comedian has spoken about brushing shoulders with the late monarch.
She once said her den was ‘covered with pictures’ of the Queen, but the monarch ‘didn’t like’ her when they met.
‘I was silly’, she said.
Miriam never intended to be ‘rude’ in the presence of royalty (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
The Harry Potter star’s slip-ups are well documented, whether she’s calling Jeffrey Epstein ‘handsome’, blasting ‘creepy’ Matt Hancock, or dropping the F-bomb.
Also in her interview with The Times, the star actually spoke about the time she swore about Jeremy Hunt on Radio 4’s Today programme.
Back in October, the movie actress issued a blistering attack on the politician after Hunt was appointed by then-Prime Minister Liz Truss to replace Kwasi Kwarteng as Chancellor.
‘F**k you, you b*****d!’, Miriam said on air a the time.
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Describing the moment as ‘so embarrassing,’ she says now: ‘Nobody would believe me, but I did not know the microphone was on. It became clear when Justin Webb said, “Now, I think we have to get you out of the studio.”
‘I just died inside; I was mortified. But I do think the blokes who run the country are disgraceful, corrupt, lazy and inadequate.’
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