It seems like everyone is excited to see the new Queen Elizabeth take the throne in Season 3 of The Crown — everyone, that is, except the real queen’s grandson.
During a recent appearance on The Graham Norton Show, Olivia Colman recalled an “awkward” meeting with Prince William, after the Oscar winner asked the royal if he had ever watched the Netflix series based on his family. Colman and her husband met the Duke of Cambridge at a recent reception at Buckingham Palace, though she joked to host Graham Norton that her conversation with him “didn’t go well.”
“He asked what I was doing at the moment before he quickly added, ‘Actually, I know what you’re doing,'” Colman recalled, referencing the fact that she has taken over the role of Queen Elizabeth on The Crown from Claire Foy. “I was so excited and asked, ‘Have you watched it?'” she continued. However, the Oscar winner’s hopes were shattered when Prince William answered with “a very firm ‘no,'” leaving her feeling very “awkward,” despite the fact that she felt the duke was “very charming and very lovely.”
Colman had previously described her awkward interaction with Prince William in an October interview with The Sunday Times, telling the outlet, “I was very uncool, and he was charming. He has that thing where he makes you feel you’re the most exciting person in the room.” In that same interview, Colman also revealed that her husband, actor and writer Ed Sinclair, stole some “[toilet] roll” from the reception in question, “just to say we got it from Buckingham Palace.”
Source: ‘The Crown’s Olivia Colman Recently Met Prince William & It “Didn’t Go Well”