Charles, then Prince of Wales, complimented Carli Norris, of EastEnders and Doctors fame, at a function – but it is said Camilla was unhappy he continued to talk about the star
Camilla allegedly stormed out of a function after the then Prince Charles kept “going on” about an actress’ “very sexy legs,” it has emerged.
Charles, then Prince of Wales, had met Carli Norris, who has been in soaps EastEnders and Doctors on the BBC, after he watched her and co-stars in The Chiltern Hundreds in the West End. Charles talked to Carli following the performance, purportedly telling her: “You’ve got very sexy legs.”
Speaking in a podcast released on Tuesday, Carli said: “Prince Charles was walking around, introducing himself to everybody and he came up to me and he shook my hand and he went ‘You’ve got very sexy legs’. I went ‘oh thank you, your highness’. “
But Charles, Camilla and some of the cast, including lead actor Edward Fox, then went out for dinner, during which Camilla “slapped her knife and fork down” and “left the room and stormed out”. Carli, who was in Hollyoaks for nearly two years until her exit in late 2013, added: “Apparently, Prince Charles was going on and on about my legs so much that eventually Camilla slapped her knife and fork down and said ‘oh for goodness sake, Chas, will you stop going on about that gal’s legs?!’ She left the room and stormed out.”
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Edward had informed Carli, from Essex, about the episode the next day ahead of another performance of The Chiltern Hundreds, in which Carli played June Farrell, an attractive millionaire whose costume she says was merely a pair of hot pants.
Speaking on Chicken Soap for the Soul, a podcast presented by former Doctors star Elisabeth Dermot Walsh, Carli said she was later invited to Buckingham Palace as one of 100 “national treasures” for the Queen’s Jubilee. The actress thought it was a “joke” but, upon confirmation, she attended with her daughter in 2022.
“When you think of national treasures, you think of Judi Dench, don’t you, and Elton John… I am not a national treasure,” Carli continued, adding she was told she was picked by a commitee to be part of the select group. However, the mum of two playfully linked this with her encounter with Charles in 2016 in the West End. She added: “I can only imagine, Elisabeth Dermot Walsh, that Prince Charles has been following my career and he is the one that wanted me sitting near him for his mummy’s Jubilee, that’s what I can imagine.” Charles became monarch later that year following Queen Elizabeth II’s death.
