Lily Collins has recalled the moment she snatched a
bouquet of flowers from Princess Diana during an encounter with the royal
as a baby. The Emily in Paris star, 32, also confessed to
throwing a toy at Prince Charles–but she was only two at the time!
Appearing on The Late Late
Show with James Corden on Tuesday, Lily was asked about a
photograph of her meeting Charles and Diana with her parents, Phil Collins and
Jill Tavelman, at London’s Royal Albert Hall in 1990.
Lily said: “I have been told that this
is what happened. That’s my mom and my
dad and I, and it’s at a Prince’s Trust event and I’m giving Diana flowers, but
the second that she went to take them, I then tried to pull them back. So, as
you can imagine, all the air was sucked out of the room. But then again, I was
wearing a cute dress, so who’s going to really punish me there?”
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| Baby Lily meeting Charles and Diana in 1990 |
Lily
then admitted to another occasion when she wasn’t on her best behavior around
the royals: “I was also told that
when I was younger, I was playing with some toys with Prince Charles and I
proceeded to kind of throw something at him, like, throw a toy telephone at his
head. Which again, all the air was sucked out of the room.”
Explaining
why she had so many encounters with the royals, Lily said: “My dad did a
lot of stuff for the Prince’s Trust, and I grew up in England, you know, I’m
British. I just went along for the ride
and I guess I had a tendency to do naughty things as a two-year-old.”
Lily
was born in Guildford in Surrey but moved to Los Angeles with her mother
following her parents’ divorce.
The actress married American film director
and writer, Charlie McDowell, in September 2021 and recently shared some
previously unseen wedding photos.
