A comedian has revealed what Meghan Markle said to her, before telling the royal she was "dying on [her] a**e".
Rose Matafeo opened up about her experience of meeting the Duchess of Sussex at the Royal Variety Performance in 2018.
After winning the Best Show at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, the New Zealand comic performed in front of the Sussexes at the London Palladium.
Matafeo spoke on the Dish podcast about performing in front of “a sea of white-haired people”.
Rose Matafeo performed in front of the Sussexes
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She told the hosts Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett: “Gorgeous, gorgeous audience expecting comedy, not expecting the sort of whimsical anti-comedy of myself.
“I did really bad Christmas cracker jokes, which were intentionally bad.
“Many people came up to me afterwards going, ‘Stay at it, keep going, girl.’
"So I think the irony of it really was lost.”
Meghan Markle spoke to performers after the show
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Matafeo referred to how she felt about Prince Harry and Meghan being in the audience.
She added: “It was Harry and Meghan as well. She kind of glided over. It was almost like she was on a hoverboard.
“She glided over like Mrs Danvers, and she was like, ‘You must be so proud.’
"And I was like, 'Of what? Of dying on my a*** in front of f***ing royals? Yeah, I’ll be writing home about that.'”
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