Kate Winslet had a memorable first encounter with King Charles III.
The Oscar winner, 50, recalled assembly the then-Prince Charles for the primary time on the February 1996 royal premiere of Sense and Sensibility in London — and the way she didn’t think about her outfit for the event.
“The primary time I met him. Oh, my goodness. He had come to help the royal premiere of Sense and Sensibility once I was 20,” Winslet said on the Tuesday, November 18, episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!
“I kind of hadn’t realized we have been actually going to fulfill him. So I forgot about the truth that I actually was carrying a form of clear lace outfit,” the actress continued. “And thank God I’d worn a coat as a result of, as he’s making his manner towards me, I’m like, ‘Nipples! Nipples! Nipples! Oh, my God.’ After which somebody simply went, ‘Coat!’ and [I covered myself] and went, ‘Your Majesty.’”
Winslet has rubbed shoulders with the monarch a number of occasions since then and is likely one of the ambassadors for the King’s Basis, Charles’ instructional charity.
The Titanic star described Charles as “actually a unprecedented man,” including, “He’s very, very variety and very empathetic and really, very beneficiant.”
The final time Winslet met the monarch was in June this yr when she attended the King’s Basis Awards ceremony at St James’s Palace together with David Beckham and Meryl Streep.
Talking to host Jimmy Kimmel, Winslet recalled that there was some concern about whether or not she and Streep, 76, must curtsy earlier than the king.
“There was a dialog about this. So, Meryl and I, as we have been strolling to fulfill the king, she says to me, ‘Do you assume we now have to curtsy?’ And I stated, ‘Completely, we now have to curtsy,’” Winslet stated. “She was like, ‘OK, is it, like, a giant curtsy? What can we do?’ I stated, ‘I don’t know. We’ll simply make the movement.’ She was like, ‘I don’t know if we have to try this.’ There was a giant panic. We didn’t know what the shape was. Clearly, we needed to curtsy.”
“Did I’m going first? I feel I did,” Winslet stated, revealing that she took the cost to avoid wasting her fellow Oscar winner from any embarrassment. “However then I’m all the time attempting to volunteer to go first as a result of I really feel like management is vital and somebody has to get it flawed, and it’s often me that does, so I don’t thoughts taking the hit.”
Winslet was introduced as the newest ambassador for the King’s Basis in June.
“I’m delighted to change into an Ambassador for The King’s Basis within the charity’s thirty fifth anniversary yr,” she stated in a statement on the time. “One in all my passions is exploring ways in which we are able to shield and promote the pure world – one thing I’ve in widespread with His Majesty! I’m due to this fact thrilled to place this ardour into observe by working with The King’s Basis. I stay up for supporting the charity’s life altering work to construct sustainable communities and rework lives into the longer term.”













