Robert Irwin has detailed the toe-curling encounter he had with King Charles as a child.<\/p>\n
Speaking with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show, the 22-year-old conservationist reminisced on a royal lunch he shared with a then-Prince Charles years earlier.<\/p>\n
He told Fallon he spilled his orange juice across the table in the King’s direction not once, but twice.<\/p>\n
“I’ve never really told this one, this is bad,” he began.<\/p>\n
“I was at lunch with the King of England, with King Charles, and I’m sitting there as a kid and I’ve got an orange juice.<\/p>\n
“I managed to spill it across the table right at him. Luckily, though, I didn’t hit him.<\/p>\n
“The best bit is they bring me another pitcher of OJ full to the brim, and I did it again five minutes later.”<\/p>\n
Mr Irwin added he was constantly spilling drinks at the dinner table, recalling pointed advice his mother once gave him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I’m notorious for spilling stuff, so my mum would always tell me, ‘Robert, if you were dining with royalty, you wouldn’t spill,'” he said.<\/p>\n
“‘So just treat it like you’re always dining worth royalty.'”<\/p>\n
Irwin also told Fallon about the time an enormous crocodile named after the talk show host, “death-rolled” him after Irwin jumped on his back during a conservationist study.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A death roll is a fatal tactic used by the reptile to subdue, drown, or dismember their prey.<\/p>\n
He said the crocodile, classified a ‘boss croc’, weighed 317kg and measured more than four metres in length.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He explained the method he uses to study crocodiles, which involves jumping on their backs, was passed down by his late father, Steve Irwin.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We research crocodiles in the wild to better conserve them,” the Dancing with the Stars winner said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“The way you do that, my dad actually came up with this, is that you have to jump on them.<\/p>\n
“So I jumped on the back of Jimmy Fallon and get this… he death rolled me.”<\/p>\n
Irwin said he was momentarily trapped beneath the 14-foot crocodile, unsure how to wriggle free from its crushing weight.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I kid you not, 14 foot of crocodile, big croc, death rolls me,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“So I’m stuck underneath him with my arm hanging out. I’ve got probably 700 pounds on top of me.<\/p>\n
“I’m just like, what do I do?”<\/p>\n
In a stroke of luck, ‘Jimmy Fallon’ rolled off of him unprompted, giving Mr Irwin a chance to break free.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Luckily, he rolled back the other way and I was fine – but he’s a goer.”\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Irwin has detailed the toe-curling encounter he had with King Charles as a child. Speaking with Jimmy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,79946,6517,35821,128,44237,338],"class_list":["post-653092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-zoo","tag-jimmy-fallon","tag-robert-irwin","tag-science","tag-steve-irwin","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}