Dawn French has recalled a very loaded exchange between her and King Charles which went terribly wrong (Picture: Dawn French/Instagram)
Dawn French is always full of devilishly funny stories, and never more so than when she’s talking about the royal family – or rather, her interactions with them.
The French and Saunders star, 66, is busy with the release of her book, The Tw*t Files, in which she divulges stories of when she was a bit of a, er, plonker – to put it politely.
While writing these files, the Vicar of Dibley star realised stories of this kind just came one after the other like a ‘tsunami’ and she wasn’t short of content.
One of Dawn’s best stories emerged when she met the royal family, and had a bit of a moment with the now-King Charles.
But while Dawn has talked about the exchange before – revealing her cheeky beaver joke that made ‘Charlie’ twinkle (more on that later) – Dawn has now said that The King actually ‘started it’.
‘I was in one of the Narnia films. And I played Mrs. Beaver, opposite Ray Winstone, playing Mr. Beaver, and we went to the royal premiere. I was quite excited about meeting Charlie, because I’ve got a bit of fancy for him,’ explained Dawn in a recent interview with Virgin Radio.
The comic admitted she fancies King Charles a little bit (Picture: Samir Hussein/WireImage)
Having flirted with King Charles, Dawn then told Queen Camilla all about it… (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
‘I’d like to ruffle his hair on a Sunday morning. You know, that kind of fancy,’ she said, never, ever holding back. (We love you, Dawn.)
‘Anyway, he was coming down the line, greeting everybody. And he started it, I have to say. He started it because he had been to see A Midsummer Night’s Dream that I was in. And he said to me, “Well, the last time I saw you, I saw your Bottom”, referring to the character Bottom in Midsummer Night’s Dream, that I played.
‘And I thought, “Right, we’re off”. And I said, “Tonight, Sir, you will see my Beaver!” And then I did lots of over-laughing. And he very quickly moved on.’
Where there was a line, Dawn recalled how she went well and truly over it, and she then heard Mr Beaver, aka, Ray, ‘of all people’ make an ‘Urgh’ noise next to her.
‘Even he knew that I was about to be beheaded,’ she chortled.
Oh, Dawn (Picture: lan Chapman/Dave Benett/Getty I)
But that wasn’t the end of it. Oh no. The chaos well and truly continued when, yet again, Dawn royally put her foot in it.
‘As Prince Charles, as he then was, moved down the line quickly, I was looking at him, regretting everything, and I heard a noise in my ear, going “Dawn, Dawn” and I went, “YES, YES, YES, WHAT?”, and it was [Queen] Camilla!
‘And I went, “Oh, sorry, sorry, I was just telling him about my Beaver. No, sorry. Sorry.” Everything just went wrong. Everything went wrong. But that’s me. See a royal and I just put my foot in it.’
We can’t argue with that one, Dawn.
This comes after the comedian was forced to postpone all of her remaining Dawn French Is a Huge T**t tour dates due to her arthritic knee.
The star announced the remaining shows scheduled in Cornwall, Nottingham, High Wycombe, Buxton, Basingstoke, Bath, Brighton, and Guilford were to be postponed.
Taking to social media with a statement, Dawn wrote: ‘It’s with a massively heavy heart and FURIOUS t**ts that I have to admit defeat and postpone all of my remaining tour dates from tonight onward.
‘My STUPID SELFISH ol’ arthritic knee has totally given up and won’t let me walk. I am swearing a lot.’
She continued: ‘I am bereft to let you down. Sorry.
‘On the upside, I can have the op I so desperately need, earlier than planned. Ouch. And sorry again.
‘We are working hard to reschedule the dates. Bear with…’
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