Dec. 4 (UPI) — Britain’s Prince Harry dropped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Wednesday night to joke about the possibility of him starring in a Christmas rom-com movie.
Looking confused, Harry interrupted Colbert’s monologue about the avalanche of feel-good holiday movies involving faux royalty.
“Sorry. I genuinely thought this was the audition for The Gingerbread Prince Saves Christmas in Nebraska,” Harry quipped.
“No,” Colbert deadpanned. “That sounds like a fantastic movie, but you’re an actual prince. Why would you want to be in one of those movies?”
Harry replied, “Well, you Americans are obsessed with Christmas movies and you’re clearly obsessed with royalty, so why not?”
Stephen Colbert accepts the Outstanding Talk Series Award for “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” onstage at the Primetime Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles in September. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI
“I wouldn’t say we’re ‘obsessed’ with royalty,” Colbert countered.
“Really? I heard you elected a king,” Harry said, to which Colbert said, “That’s a fair point.”
Prince Harry leaves the Royal Courts of justice after his legal fight to secure proper security for himself and his family when they visit the United Kingdom in London in April. File Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI
The remark was met with a mix of cheers and boos from the studio audience.
Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, appear in a special holiday episode of her show With Love, Meghan, released Wednesday on Netflix.