{"id":272034,"date":"2025-11-19T17:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/272034\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T17:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:46:09","slug":"kate-winslet-reveals-awkward-king-charles-encounter-after-wearing-transparent-outfit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/272034\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Winslet reveals awkward King Charles encounter after wearing ‘transparent outfit’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kate Winslet has revealed an awkward encounter she once had with King Charles.<\/p>\n

Ms Winslet, 50, was announced as the newest ambassador for the King’s Foundation in June, joining the charity during its 35th anniversary year.<\/p>\n

The Titanic star has praised King Charles as “really an extraordinary man,” noting: “He’s very, very kind and extremely empathetic and very, very generous.”<\/p>\n

However, when Ms Winslet was 20 years old, an awkward incident occurred with His Majesty at the February 1996 film premiere of Sense and Sensibility in London.<\/p>\n

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Kate Winslet reveals awkward King Charles encounter after wearing ‘transparent outfit’<\/p>\n

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During an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Tuesday evening, Ms Winslet disclosed that she had worn a see-through black lace ensemble to the event, not anticipating she would actually meet the royal guest.<\/p>\n

The actress explained how panic set in when she realised the transparency of her outfit as King Charles approached.<\/p>\n

“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,” Mr Winslet told Mr Kimmel.<\/p>\n

“I sort of hadn’t realised we were really going to meet him. So I forgot about the fact that I really was wearing a kind of transparent lace outfit,” she continued.<\/p>\n

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Kate Winslet at the Sense and Sensibility premiere in 1996<\/p>\n

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The actress described her moment of horror: “And 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.'”<\/p>\n

Quick-thinking assistants saved the day when someone shouted “Coat!” prompting Ms Winslet to wrap herself up before greeting the prince with “Your Majesty.”<\/p>\n

Nearly three decades after that memorable first meeting, Ms Winslet found herself in another amusing royal predicament in June this year.<\/p>\n

The actress and Meryl Streep experienced pre-meeting jitters at St James’s Palace whilst attending the King’s Foundation Awards ceremony.<\/p>\n

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King Charles greeting Kate Winslet at the premiere<\/p>\n

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Kate Winslet was 20 years old at the time of the premiere<\/p>\n

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“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,'” Ms Winslet recounted.<\/p>\n

Ms Streep, 76, questioned whether it should be “a big curtsy” and expressed uncertainty about proper protocol.<\/p>\n

Ms Winslet took charge, volunteering to curtsy first to spare her fellow Oscar winner any potential embarrassment.<\/p>\n

“Did I go first? I think I did,” Ms Winslet said, explaining her decision to lead by example. “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.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kate Winslet has revealed an awkward encounter she once had with King Charles. Ms Winslet, 50, was announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,830,96,1328,1852,2331,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-272034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-celebrity","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-royal","13":"tag-sgg","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}