2 min readKate Winslet met King Charles in 1996 and accidentally wore a fully sheer jumpsuit.Kate spiraled about her nipples showing and had to improvise.The actor recalled the story on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Turns out Kate Winslet was hopping on the naked dress trend way before it became commonplace on the red carpet, and wore an entirely sheer look to meet none other than King Charles.
The actor recalled meeting Charles at the 1996 premiere of Sense and Sensibility in London, telling Jimmy Kimmel “The first time I met him. Oh my goodness. He had come to support the royal premiere of Sense and Sensibility when I was 20. I sort of hadn’t realized we were really going to meet him. So I forgot about the fact that I really was wearing a kind of transparent lace outfit.”
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She added, “Thank God I’d worn a coat because as he’s making his way towards me, I’m like, ‘Nipples! Nipples! Nipples! Oh, my God.’ And then someone just went, ‘Coat!’ and I went [*puts coat on*] ‘Your Majesty.'”
Amazing.
Kate also spoke about meeting His Majesty with Meryl Streep at the King’s Foundation Awards ceremony over the summer, saying they were confused about curtsying protocol.
“There was a conversation about this. So, Meryl and I, as we were walking to meet the king, she says to me, ‘Do you think we have to curtsy?’ And I said, ‘Absolutely, we have to curtsy,'” Kate said. “She was like, ‘okay, is it, like, a big curtsy? What do we do?’ I said, ‘I don’t know. We’ll just make the motion.’ She was like, ‘I don’t know if we need to do that.’ There was a big panic. We didn’t know what the form was. Obviously, we had to curtsy. Did I go first? I think I did. But then I’m always trying to volunteer to go first because I feel like leadership is important and someone has to get it wrong, and it’s usually me that does, so I don’t mind taking the hit.”